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25+ Fun Summer Camp Activities For Kids

Summer vacation is coming! Whether you are organizing activities for the neighborhood kids, or you are working as camp counselors running summer camps, coming up with the best ideas for a memorable summer of fun is so important. Let us take a bit of the pressure off with our list of the best Science, STEM and, just plain old fun, Summer Camp Activities for Kids.

The Best Summer Camp Ideas For Kids

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When it comes to summer time we want fun activities for the kids that will create memories that will last a lifetime. Whether they are STEM and science camp activities, outdoor activities and games, crafts, or indoor/rainy day activities, the main goal needs to be FUN!

We all have those summer memories from our childhood. The ones that have stuck with us over the years. As you think back on those memories, what is it that stands out? How can we replicate those cherished memories for our kids?

If you ask me, the big thing I remember is having fun with friends, going on adventures, and doing amazing new things.

So that was the guiding force as I developed this list. Friends, adventures and fun, new experiences. I hope it helps you create a summer of amazing memories for your kids.

Our List of Summer Camp Activities

Bottle Rockets

Blast off a summer of incredible memories with this STEM Bottle Rocket challenge. Campers can be challenged to build a launch pad. This could be out of whatever you have available: LEGO, craft sticks, blocks or even forged items from the forest. Then, with a couple of simple ingredients, you can cause a chemical reaction that will WOW everyone!

Build a Rain Gauge

When you are finished blasting off those bottle rockets, take that bottle and turn it into a simple Rain Gauge that will have your kids hoping for a rainy day!

Seed Bombs

This is such a great backyard or camp activity idea. Make simple seed bombs using native wildflowers, then build special seed bomb launchers to fire those seed bombs and build some habitats for our pollinators.

Bird Feeder

We don’t want our bird friends to feel left out, and this next project is so quick and easy. Make these bird feeders and hang them around your yard or camp site to invite in local birds for a snack.

Flower Bouquet Nature Craft

This simple crafting idea is brilliant for young summer campers. Using our printable templates, have kids colour, then fill their art with wildflowers growing around the camp.

Oobleck

This simple project can provide so many hours of memories and fun for campers. Whether you make small batches of Oobleck for messy sensory play, or go big and make a pool sized batch for kids to really go crazy with, Oobleck is the non-Newtonian Fluid that every camper needs to explore. Best of all it only needs one ingredient plus some water. So simple!

Build a Handheld Cannon

Looking for the perfect summer camp activity for teens and older kids? This is it! Have them build their very own handheld cannon, then head out for games and challenges that will have memories created that will last a lifetime. Plus they can keep their cannon as a special keepsake of their special summer.

Camp Pro Tip! Supply a wide variety of markers, stickers, tapes and paints so the kids can customize their cannon.

Craft Stick Launchers

Love the cannon idea but need something a little smaller? Try making these Craft Stick Launchers that are inspired by crossbows. These mini-crossbows are a fantastic STEM build that also challenges kids to consider the physics of how to launch their cotton swab!

How to Make a Compass

It only makes sense that the first thing campers should do as part of a science camp, or really any camp, is to make a homemade compass! This activity is great fun and a wonderful hands on summer camp activity to go with orienteering lessons or as part of an Einstein inspired day.

Jitter Bugs Magnet Science

Playing with magnetism doesn’t need to end with making a compass! In this bug themed magnet science and STEM activity that is perfect for summer camp, kids play with magnetic forces to make a Jitter Bug.

Build a Solar Oven

On a hot sunny day there is nothing better than building a solar oven to cook up some snacks! This simple project is always a huge hit with kids, especially because they get to eat what they cook using the power of the sun. From s’mores to pizzas every summer camp needs a solar oven project!

Greenhouse Effect

Part of summer camp is being out in nature, but over the last few years the impact of climate change has become immense. It is impossible to ignore anymore. As part of your summer camp, this Greenhouse Effect experiment will help demonstrate how greenhouse gases are causing warming and melting of ice caps.

Water Lab

Water safety is a big issue. Especially if you are running a summer camp with everyone living in nature. Understanding water safety, and what water is safe to drink is important. Dive in and explore water in your area with this water lab.

Recycled Seed Paper

As part of our goal to teach children about the environment, we love coming up with activities that recycle materials and reduce waste. Near the end of your camp or summer, this is one of the best final summer camp activities. Gather up all the scraps of paper from your summer of fun, and use it to make special seed paper. Campers can use it to write special notes to their friends and bring it home to plant as a special memory of their summer.

Friendship Necklaces

This is a really cool and different take on the traditional friendship bracelets. Teach your summer camp students some simple metal stamping techniques and create a special keepsake from their summer of fun with friends.

DIY Bioplastic Suncatchers

Explore the incredible process of making bioplastics with simple kitchen ingredients. In this summer STEM project kids learn about polymers and create the most beautiful suncatchers that will bring a gorgeous colourful touch to your windows. Fantastic project for summer camp!

Does it Float?

There are two different versions you can do with this project idea. First, if you have cans of soda pop in a variety of types including diet and regular, you can do this experiment with the cans. You can also do this experiment with water balloons, which is a really, really fun alternative.

Nerf War

Summer camp is the perfect time to build an epic obstacle course and Nerf War Battlefield. What kid doesn’t love a fun Nerf War? You can also use this idea to build a memorable Water Gun battlefield in the backyard. Turning this into a water gun zone is a fun way to bring in some water play to beat the summer heat. So many camp games to be played and memories just waiting to be made!

Ninja Tire Course

A wonderful way to get outside and get moving is to build a simple ninja inspired tire obstacle course. All you need is a few old tires and you can have days of physical activity and fun for your campers. When it comes to summer camp activities, this one has been popular for generations.

Water Clock

This simple project is a really fun way for kids to learn a little history about clocks, while building their very own water clock. You can have kids build it at the beginning of camp, then use it as their own special timer during the week.

Circuit Bugs

Ever since we first created Circuit Bugs back in 2015 it has become popular all over the world, especially as one of the best Science Summer Camp Activities. This one is great for older kids and teens.

Circuit Flowers

Following the popularity of Circuit Bugs, we went back and created Circuit Flowers. Another fantastic summer STEM circuit building project for older kids and teens.

Lemon Volcano

There is something about lemons that always makes me think of summer. In this activity we make a simple volcano using lemons and a bit of food coloring to make it a beautiful eruption.

Balloon Car

Ready to send your summer camp off to the races? Have your campers build Balloon Cars. In our design, it is built from recycled materials. Once built, have races to see whose is the fastest!

Balloon Races

Want a summer camp activity that will appeal to all ages and can be done indoors or outdoors? Check out Balloon Races? This project is so much fun and will have kids laughing and learning all summer long. This idea is fantastic for a science or Newton inspired camp.

Water Activities and Experiments

One thing that is often readily available during summer camps is water. We have lots of different experiments you can do with the kids using Water. Find the one that is perfect for your summer camp activities including lots of ideas for rainy days.

Butterfly Life Cycle

Learn all about the beautiful Butterfly Life Cycle by building a cool model that spins. This is a great summer camp project as part of nature studies. Students can go out and find butterflies in nature, then come back and build a model either individually or as a group.

Crystal Gridding

Sometimes we need some quiet time and mindfulness during our summer camps. Crystal or Rock Gridding is a wonderful way to bring in some quiet, meditative time with your kids. Send the kids on a scavenger hunt. Have them explore nature to find rocks and other special natural finds, then build a beautiful grid or design with the pieces.

Magical Wizard Themed Camp

If you have a Harry Potter inspired camp that is all about wizarding, we have plenty of magical ideas for your summer camp. I highly recommend Troll Bogey Magnetic Slime, Lumos Circuit Wand Building, and some charms practice with Wingardium Leviosar (a special science experiment). You can find these and all of our magical activity ideas in our Harry Potter resource.

Magical Optical Illusion Projects

Speaking of magical activities, if you need some indoor crafting STEM projects, why not do some really cool optical illusion projects with your campers this summer? We have lots of amazing variations you can try.

Paper Airplane Challenge

Challenge your campers or kids this summer to make paper airplanes and see who can come up with the best design. Start with some simple folding instructions, then let your campers get creative!

Giant Bubbles

This is a summer camp classic: creating GIANT bubbles. Everyone loves bubbles and at the end of a wonderful week of making memories, these giant bubbles are a fantastic way to celebrate and have some fun!

This list of ideas will continue to grow! We have plenty of activity ideas that we are still creating and will be sharing with you and adding to this list.

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Also available, this Summer Beach themed Code Breakers activity. Perfect for a rainy day of code breaking fun.

Have an incredible summer of fun!

30 Fun Summer Camp Activities for Kids

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Resources / Groups & Clubs Posted by Erica Jabali Summer is almost here and that means it’s time to get ready for camp! Many kids look forward to having adventures at camp and return each year to see their favorite counselors and friends. Summer camps give kids an opportunity to make new memories in a fun, safe place. Be sure to pack all the gear that they will need for a fun and safe summer camp adventure.  Camp organizers spend months planning before all those kids arrive, and activities are an exciting part of any summer experience. Whether you need a quick game to fill time or you’re looking for a more involved activity that will keep them busy for hours, there are plenty of ideas here for you and your campers.  Here are 30 fun ideas for summer camp that include active outside games, water activities, crafts, drama, and even indoor options.   Cardboard Box Car Races – In this fun activity, kids design their own cars out of cardboard boxes. Plan ahead by asking staff members (and even your families) to save big cardboard boxes and bring them to camp. Then, supply kids with tape, construction paper, pipe cleaners, poofs, and any other kind of supply they could need to turn their box into a car. Cut holes in the bottom for their legs to make these cars kid-powered! Then, they simply wear their cardboard box cars for a series of races. Design racetracks for their “cars” using orange cones or spray paint designed for grass. Myth Busters – Inspired by the popular show, design activities around myths, such as, “Can you really cook an egg on the sidewalk if it’s hot enough outside?” or “Is yawning really contagious?” Choose myth buster activities that don’t require a ton of special equipment, such as these 14 activities. Scavenger Hunts – An easy and fun activity – scavenger hunts can be used in all sorts of ways to keep kids entertained. Do an outdoor scavenger hunt by using a list of things to look for in nature. Kids can either collect a list of objects or simply check off items they’ve found. An indoor scavenger hunt can be used the same way on a particularly hot day. Another fun activity is to use a deck of scavenger hunt cards and turn this into a game. Call out what is on the card and have kids race to touch an object that meets the description. Ninja Warrior Course – Obstacle courses are more popular than ever. Create a fun “Ninja Warrior” course by setting up an obstacle course for kids around an open field or area. Anything can be used here, such as chairs, boxes, pop-up tunnels, orange traffic cones and more. Kids can wear ninja headbands colored to their teams to make it a team activity or just decorate their own ninja headbands beforehand and wear them while racing through the obstacle course. Talent Show – Every kid has something special they can share! Give kids plenty of time to think about what they could do for the talent show and prepare their act. Set up a stage area and a place for your audience to sit. Have someone act as the MC to introduce the acts and give kids their moment in the spotlight. For kids who don’t know what to do, help them discover a special talent or supply a custom or prop to get them inspired. Check out these talent show ideas for kids. Children’s Theatre – Kids love to take the stage! Separate kids into groups and let them create a stage play (or get some play scripts to follow) showcasing a story such as, “Three Little Pigs” or “Little Red Riding Hood.” They’ll need plenty of time to practice before the big show. Simple costumes and props can be used or their performances can tell the story. You can even involve campers in setting up props and costumes for the play. Plan activities leading up to the plays, so they are familiar with the stories. Water Balloon Dodgeball – It’s going to get hot outside this summer. Water games are a fun way to keep kids cool and busy. Water balloons are easier than ever to inflate, thanks to sets like this that allow you to inflate dozens of water balloons in seconds. Then, place buckets of water balloons around a designated area, and have kids get in position for a simple dodgeball game! Any kids that are tagged are “out” or you just let them go until all the water balloons are used up. Sumo Suit Wrestling – This activity might be more of an investment, but the payout is well worth it. You can rent or buy inflatable sumo suits for kids to wrestle in a safe, padded area. The suits protect them when they do fall down, too, for a fun game sure to result in loads of laughter. Have kids take turns sumo wrestling to find your sumo winner. Try to keep matches fair by grouping kids by size and strength. Paper Bag Puppet Show – What’s better than watching a puppet show? Making your own! Give kids simple supplies: lunch-sized paper bags, construction paper, poufs, googly eyes, pipe cleaners, etc., and let them design paper bag puppets. Then, they can either follow simple scripts for kids or just create their own puppet shows with their friends. Create or pick up a simple puppet show stage for them to use to act out their shows. Crafting with Beads – Creating with beads is a very soothing activity for all types of children, especially kids who may be on the spectrum or have ADHD. Supply lots of different types of beads, as well as soft thread strong enough to hold the beads. Let kids create necklaces, bracelets, or whatever they want and then wear (or gift) their designs. Balloon Tennis – Make popular sports accessible for everyone with adaptations like balloon tennis. Use fly swatters or tennis rackets and inflated balloons for a slower, softer, easier version of tennis. Let kids play with their friends or divide them into teams. Since the balloons are less of a safety hazard, you can place all the teams on a large field at the same time. Cooking Class – Many kids really enjoy cooking and baking. Inspire their inner chefs by offering short cooking classes with simple recipes that kids can make and then eat. They are much more likely to enjoy a meal they have made themselves! Easy recipes for your campers could include fruit skewers, simple pizzas, ice cream sundaes, no-bake cookies, tortilla roll-ups with their choice of filling (such as peanut butter and sliced bananas, etc. ) and yogurt bark. Simplify summer camp registration with an online sign up. View an Example Camping for the Day – Enjoy camping during the day by making teepees, doing a nature scavenger hunt, and making s’mores using a solo stove or firepit! Genius Day – Kids grow up seeing the famous inventions of brilliant people around them. Give them an opportunity to be the genius and have Genius Day. Tell kids in advance to think about an invention that they could make to improve something in their lives or at the camp. If they need any special supplies, gather them in advance or ask families to provide some items to help them out. Then, on Genius Day, give kids plenty of time to create inventions before presenting them to others. To build excitement, have kids decorate their own thinking caps to wear on Genius Day. Dr. Seuss STEM Week – A great way to incorporate reading, science, and hands-on learning is to do activities inspired by Dr. Seuss books! You could do just one of the activities or do one a day for a week. Start by reading the book and then talking through what you would need to do the science experiment in the book. Supply all materials and let kids create their Ooblek or design their apple boats. Here are 10 Dr. Seuss STEM activities to get you started. Animal Charades – Charades is a great way for kids to use their imagination and have fun! Put names of animals on separate small strips of paper and put them in a bucket or hat. Then, have kids take turns pulling a sheet of paper, acting out the animal, while the other kids yell out guesses. The kid who gets the animal right gets to go next. Cat & Mouse – In this popular game, everyone but two kids form a circle — standing far enough apart so that players can stretch arms to hold hands. The two players will be running through these spaces between players. One of the two is the cat and the other is the mouse. The cat tries to catch the mouse. They can run between players, but once one of them runs between players, those players close up so there is no space. As the game proceeds, more spaces will close up. If one of the two players gets trapped inside the circle, the other player wins. If both are trapped inside or outside, the group counts to ten and the cat tries to catch the mouse. If they do, they win. Otherwise, the mouse wins. Select two new players and play again. Flashlight Limbo – Sometimes, playing a game in the dark is just more fun. Turn off the lights inside and use a strong flashlight to create a limbo “beam” instead of a bar. Play music and have kids take turns going under the beam without falling or touching the ground with their hands. Slowly move the limbo light lower to the ground until you have a winner. Treasure Hunt – They’re all pirates and they want to find the treasure! Lead up to the hunt by letting kids create their own pirate hats. Then, create a treasure full of treats, play jewelry and gold coins and put the items in a little treasure chest or box. Alternatively, hide supplies needed for their next game as the treasure. When they open it, you can seamlessly move on to the next activity. Hide the treasure somewhere within your camp and design a treasure map that kids can use to work in teams and find it. Be sure to discuss the limits of the hunt, so kids don’t wander off the property or into an unsafe area. Parachute Games – Kids of all ages enjoy playing with a parachute. There are so many ways you can use a parachute to help kids focus and get them working together. From lifting the parachute up and down, to working together to keep a beach ball on the parachute and even lifting the parachute up, moving inside and then closing it, so they’re inside a big colorful globe. A parachute makes for an easy filler game – with almost no prep required but the parachute and enough space to use it. Counselor Fashion Show – Need an inside game on a rainy or hot day? Dress up your camp counselors! Split up the kids into groups designed around your number of camp counselors. Each group gets to create a costume for their counselor. It can be a theme, such as a famous person, or it can be a costume of their choosing, such as toilet paper bride or an astronaut.  Let kids create a costume for their counselor and when all the costumes are ready, designate a stage area for the counselors. Blast the music and let the kids cheer for their counselors as they strut the runway. Kids can vote to award the counselors with the winning design and best moves on the runway. Water Sponge Tag – Pick up small sponges at the dollar store or have kids craft little water sponges to use. Fill buckets with water and station them around the tag area. Have kids play tag by tossing their water sponges at each other. Of course, it’ll become difficult to track who is “it” after a few seconds or minutes, so pretty much everyone is it. Ask kids to try to avoid faces, though, to prevent any possible injuries. Fireman’s Relay – A slightly more organized water game that is still fun, kids will enjoy playing Fireman’s Relay. To start, form a line with the first player 10 feet from a water hose. Every kid has a large plastic cup. A large bucket sits at the end of the line. The first player uses the hose to fill a cup. Then, they pour their cup into the second person’s cup, who does the same. Kids continue to pour their cup into the next person’s until the end when the last person dumps the water into the bucket. Blob Tag – Blob Tag is a fun variation on the classic tag game. Every tagged player holds hands with the rest of the tagged players and they must run together to tag more people to join their blob. The last person to get tagged by the blob wins.   Stone Painting – It’s likely there are plenty of stones near your camp and they make for an excellent and easy craft activity. Have kids select the smoothest stones they’d like to paint. Then, provide materials to paint them. After the stones have dried, kids can place them around the camp area for other campers to find, near a nearby river bed, or leave them anonymously around their neighborhood as gifts. Coordinate camp volunteers with an online sign up. View an Example Capture the Flag – Kids love to play this classic game. The goal is to capture the other team’s flag. Divide your group into two and designate a play area. Each team hides their flag on one side of the playing area. Teams work together to find the other team’s flag. Meanwhile, team members do not want to get tagged by members of the opposing team. If tagged, they must go to “jail” — a designated area on the opposing team’s side. They can only get out of jail if someone on their team can manage to tag and free them without being tagged by an opposing team member. The game ends when the time is up or when one team captures the other team’s flag. Sardines – A fun version of Hide ‘n Seek with a twist, in Sardines only one person hides. Everyone searches for the person and if they find them, they hide with them. The last player to find them is the first person to hide on the next round. Storyteller – Kids are natural storytellers. This game requires no prep or props, so you can use it anytime you need a quick activity. Have everyone sit in a circle. A counselor starts a story that sets the scene, such as, “Last summer, right at this camp, something mysterious happened…” Then, each camper adds a sentence until the story ends. If the story ends before each player has a turn, start a new story. Don’t Set Off the Alarm – In a hallway, use strips of paper or tape to create a maze, similar to those scenes in movies where people have to get through a hallway without tripping an alarm. Then, time students as they try to make it through the hallway without touching any of the paper/tape to see who can do it the fastest. Nature Art – This easy activity just requires basic art supplies and paper. Take kids outside and give them a designated area to wander and find something in nature that inspires them. Then, they can recreate the object or area using their drawing or painting supplies. When they’re finished with their art, make sure to display them inside so kids can enjoy everyone’s creations.  Games and activities are a big part of the summer camp experience. Whether you plan ahead or leave some room in your schedule to pick games that suit your group, you’ll be sure to have the best summer camp around with this list that will keep them active, engaged, and interested in what’s coming next. Erica Jabali is a freelance writer and blogs over at ispyfabulous.com.

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Summer is almost here and that means it’s time to get ready for camp! Many kids look forward to having adventures at camp and return each year to see their favorite counselors and friends. Summer camps give kids an opportunity to make new memories in a fun, safe place. Be sure to pack all the gear that they will need for a fun and safe summer camp adventure. 

Camp organizers spend months planning before all those kids arrive, and activities are an exciting part of any summer experience. Whether you need a quick game to fill time or you’re looking for a more involved activity that will keep them busy for hours, there are plenty of ideas here for you and your campers.  Here are 30 fun ideas for summer camp that include active outside games, water activities, crafts, drama, and even indoor options.  

1. Cardboard Box Car Races – In this fun activity, kids design their own cars out of cardboard boxes. Plan ahead by asking staff members (and even your families) to save big cardboard boxes and bring them to camp. Then, supply kids with tape, construction paper, pipe cleaners, poofs, and any other kind of supply they could need to turn their box into a car. Cut holes in the bottom for their legs to make these cars kid-powered! Then, they simply wear their cardboard box cars for a series of races. Design racetracks for their “cars” using orange cones or spray paint designed for grass.
2. Myth Busters – Inspired by the popular show, design activities around myths, such as, “Can you really cook an egg on the sidewalk if it’s hot enough outside?” or “Is yawning really contagious?” Choose myth buster activities that don’t require a ton of special equipment, such as these 14 activities.
3. Scavenger Hunts – An easy and fun activity – scavenger hunts can be used in all sorts of ways to keep kids entertained. Do an outdoor scavenger hunt by using a list of things to look for in nature. Kids can either collect a list of objects or simply check off items they’ve found. An indoor scavenger hunt can be used the same way on a particularly hot day.
   Another fun activity is to use a deck of scavenger hunt cards and turn this into a game. Call out what is on the card and have kids race to touch an object that meets the description.
4. Ninja Warrior Course – Obstacle courses are more popular than ever. Create a fun “Ninja Warrior” course by setting up an obstacle course for kids around an open field or area. Anything can be used here, such as chairs, boxes, pop-up tunnels, orange traffic cones and more. Kids can wear ninja headbands colored to their teams to make it a team activity or just decorate their own ninja headbands beforehand and wear them while racing through the obstacle course.
5. Talent Show – Every kid has something special they can share! Give kids plenty of time to think about what they could do for the talent show and prepare their act. Set up a stage area and a place for your audience to sit. Have someone act as the MC to introduce the acts and give kids their moment in the spotlight. For kids who don’t know what to do, help them discover a special talent or supply a custom or prop to get them inspired. Check out these talent show ideas for kids.
6. Children’s Theatre – Kids love to take the stage! Separate kids into groups and let them create a stage play (or get some play scripts to follow) showcasing a story such as, “Three Little Pigs” or “Little Red Riding Hood.” They’ll need plenty of time to practice before the big show. Simple costumes and props can be used or their performances can tell the story. You can even involve campers in setting up props and costumes for the play. Plan activities leading up to the plays, so they are familiar with the stories.
7. Water Balloon Dodgeball – It’s going to get hot outside this summer. Water games are a fun way to keep kids cool and busy. Water balloons are easier than ever to inflate, thanks to sets like this that allow you to inflate dozens of water balloons in seconds. Then, place buckets of water balloons around a designated area, and have kids get in position for a simple dodgeball game! Any kids that are tagged are “out” or you just let them go until all the water balloons are used up.
8. Sumo Suit Wrestling – This activity might be more of an investment, but the payout is well worth it. You can rent or buy inflatable sumo suits for kids to wrestle in a safe, padded area. The suits protect them when they do fall down, too, for a fun game sure to result in loads of laughter. Have kids take turns sumo wrestling to find your sumo winner. Try to keep matches fair by grouping kids by size and strength.
9. Paper Bag Puppet Show – What’s better than watching a puppet show? Making your own! Give kids simple supplies: lunch-sized paper bags, construction paper, poufs, googly eyes, pipe cleaners, etc. , and let them design paper bag puppets. Then, they can either follow simple scripts for kids or just create their own puppet shows with their friends. Create or pick up a simple puppet show stage for them to use to act out their shows.
10. Crafting with Beads – Creating with beads is a very soothing activity for all types of children, especially kids who may be on the spectrum or have ADHD. Supply lots of different types of beads, as well as soft thread strong enough to hold the beads. Let kids create necklaces, bracelets, or whatever they want and then wear (or gift) their designs.
11. Balloon Tennis – Make popular sports accessible for everyone with adaptations like balloon tennis. Use fly swatters or tennis rackets and inflated balloons for a slower, softer, easier version of tennis. Let kids play with their friends or divide them into teams. Since the balloons are less of a safety hazard, you can place all the teams on a large field at the same time.
12. Cooking Class – Many kids really enjoy cooking and baking. Inspire their inner chefs by offering short cooking classes with simple recipes that kids can make and then eat. They are much more likely to enjoy a meal they have made themselves! Easy recipes for your campers could include fruit skewers, simple pizzas, ice cream sundaes, no-bake cookies, tortilla roll-ups with their choice of filling (such as peanut butter and sliced bananas, etc.) and yogurt bark.

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13. Camping for the Day – Enjoy camping during the day by making teepees, doing a nature scavenger hunt, and making s’mores using a solo stove or firepit!
14. Genius Day – Kids grow up seeing the famous inventions of brilliant people around them. Give them an opportunity to be the genius and have Genius Day. Tell kids in advance to think about an invention that they could make to improve something in their lives or at the camp. If they need any special supplies, gather them in advance or ask families to provide some items to help them out. Then, on Genius Day, give kids plenty of time to create inventions before presenting them to others. To build excitement, have kids decorate their own thinking caps to wear on Genius Day.
15. Dr. Seuss STEM Week – A great way to incorporate reading, science, and hands-on learning is to do activities inspired by Dr. Seuss books! You could do just one of the activities or do one a day for a week. Start by reading the book and then talking through what you would need to do the science experiment in the book. Supply all materials and let kids create their Ooblek or design their apple boats. Here are 10 Dr. Seuss STEM activities to get you started.
16. Animal Charades – Charades is a great way for kids to use their imagination and have fun! Put names of animals on separate small strips of paper and put them in a bucket or hat. Then, have kids take turns pulling a sheet of paper, acting out the animal, while the other kids yell out guesses. The kid who gets the animal right gets to go next.
17. Cat & Mouse – In this popular game, everyone but two kids form a circle — standing far enough apart so that players can stretch arms to hold hands. The two players will be running through these spaces between players. One of the two is the cat and the other is the mouse. The cat tries to catch the mouse. They can run between players, but once one of them runs between players, those players close up so there is no space.
    As the game proceeds, more spaces will close up. If one of the two players gets trapped inside the circle, the other player wins. If both are trapped inside or outside, the group counts to ten and the cat tries to catch the mouse. If they do, they win. Otherwise, the mouse wins. Select two new players and play again.

18. Flashlight Limbo – Sometimes, playing a game in the dark is just more fun. Turn off the lights inside and use a strong flashlight to create a limbo “beam” instead of a bar. Play music and have kids take turns going under the beam without falling or touching the ground with their hands. Slowly move the limbo light lower to the ground until you have a winner.
19. Treasure Hunt – They’re all pirates and they want to find the treasure! Lead up to the hunt by letting kids create their own pirate hats. Then, create a treasure full of treats, play jewelry and gold coins and put the items in a little treasure chest or box. Alternatively, hide supplies needed for their next game as the treasure.
    When they open it, you can seamlessly move on to the next activity. Hide the treasure somewhere within your camp and design a treasure map that kids can use to work in teams and find it. Be sure to discuss the limits of the hunt, so kids don’t wander off the property or into an unsafe area.
20. Parachute Games – Kids of all ages enjoy playing with a parachute. There are so many ways you can use a parachute to help kids focus and get them working together. From lifting the parachute up and down, to working together to keep a beach ball on the parachute and even lifting the parachute up, moving inside and then closing it, so they’re inside a big colorful globe. A parachute makes for an easy filler game – with almost no prep required but the parachute and enough space to use it.
21. Counselor Fashion Show – Need an inside game on a rainy or hot day? Dress up your camp counselors! Split up the kids into groups designed around your number of camp counselors. Each group gets to create a costume for their counselor. It can be a theme, such as a famous person, or it can be a costume of their choosing, such as toilet paper bride or an astronaut. 
    Let kids create a costume for their counselor and when all the costumes are ready, designate a stage area for the counselors. Blast the music and let the kids cheer for their counselors as they strut the runway. Kids can vote to award the counselors with the winning design and best moves on the runway.
22. Water Sponge Tag – Pick up small sponges at the dollar store or have kids craft little water sponges to use. Fill buckets with water and station them around the tag area. Have kids play tag by tossing their water sponges at each other. Of course, it’ll become difficult to track who is “it” after a few seconds or minutes, so pretty much everyone is it. Ask kids to try to avoid faces, though, to prevent any possible injuries.
23. Fireman’s Relay – A slightly more organized water game that is still fun, kids will enjoy playing Fireman’s Relay. To start, form a line with the first player 10 feet from a water hose. Every kid has a large plastic cup. A large bucket sits at the end of the line. The first player uses the hose to fill a cup. Then, they pour their cup into the second person’s cup, who does the same. Kids continue to pour their cup into the next person’s until the end when the last person dumps the water into the bucket.
24. Blob Tag – Blob Tag is a fun variation on the classic tag game. Every tagged player holds hands with the rest of the tagged players and they must run together to tag more people to join their blob. The last person to get tagged by the blob wins.  
25. Stone Painting – It’s likely there are plenty of stones near your camp and they make for an excellent and easy craft activity. Have kids select the smoothest stones they’d like to paint. Then, provide materials to paint them. After the stones have dried, kids can place them around the camp area for other campers to find, near a nearby river bed, or leave them anonymously around their neighborhood as gifts.

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26. Capture the Flag – Kids love to play this classic game. The goal is to capture the other team’s flag. Divide your group into two and designate a play area. Each team hides their flag on one side of the playing area. Teams work together to find the other team’s flag. Meanwhile, team members do not want to get tagged by members of the opposing team. If tagged, they must go to “jail” — a designated area on the opposing team’s side. They can only get out of jail if someone on their team can manage to tag and free them without being tagged by an opposing team member. The game ends when the time is up or when one team captures the other team’s flag.
27. Sardines – A fun version of Hide ‘n Seek with a twist, in Sardines only one person hides. Everyone searches for the person and if they find them, they hide with them. The last player to find them is the first person to hide on the next round.
28. Storyteller – Kids are natural storytellers. This game requires no prep or props, so you can use it anytime you need a quick activity. Have everyone sit in a circle. A counselor starts a story that sets the scene, such as, “Last summer, right at this camp, something mysterious happened…” Then, each camper adds a sentence until the story ends. If the story ends before each player has a turn, start a new story.
29. Don’t Set Off the Alarm – In a hallway, use strips of paper or tape to create a maze, similar to those scenes in movies where people have to get through a hallway without tripping an alarm. Then, time students as they try to make it through the hallway without touching any of the paper/tape to see who can do it the fastest.
30. Nature Art – This easy activity just requires basic art supplies and paper. Take kids outside and give them a designated area to wander and find something in nature that inspires them. Then, they can recreate the object or area using their drawing or painting supplies. When they’re finished with their art, make sure to display them inside so kids can enjoy everyone’s creations. 

Games and activities are a big part of the summer camp experience. Whether you plan ahead or leave some room in your schedule to pick games that suit your group, you’ll be sure to have the best summer camp around with this list that will keep them active, engaged, and interested in what’s coming next.

Erica Jabali is a freelance writer and blogs over at ispyfabulous.com. 

40+ Creative Summer Camp Activities for Kids

It’s summertime, and that means it’s summer camp season! Whether you’re planning an official summer camp or you’re a parent trying to plan a fun summer camp at home, you have to check out the activities below for inspiration. From making slime to tie-dyeing shirts with water guns to outdoor scavenger hunts, you’ll find so many creative summer camp activities to keep the kids entertained. They’ll be learning while having fun, and isn’t that the whole point?

Creative Summer Camp Activities

We’ll kick things off with some of our favorite summer camp ideas that we’ve done right here at Natural Beach Living. The ice activities will help kids cool off on a hot summer day, while the slime-making and experiments help kids work on their science skills. 

Let’s dive in!

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Creative Summer Camp Activities from Natural Beach Living

Ice Cube Painting

Our ice cube painting activity is so much fun for summertime. It’s a neat way for kids to paint to produce pretty watercolor-style designs. Use watercolor paper for best results, but if you don’t have any, white cardstock works fine, too. 

Frozen Dinosaur Eggs

Kids can really put their thinking caps on to figure out how to free the toy dinosaurs from the frozen eggs. They can hold them between their hands, chisel at them tools, put them in the sun, use warm water, or whatever they can think of to speed up the process!

Super Soaker Sponge Balls

Cool off on a hot day with these super soaker sponge balls you can reuse again and again during summer camp. Although they may look tricky, they’re super easy to make with inexpensive Dollar Store sponges and string. 

Water Xylophone

Experiment with sound by making a colorful water xylophone. You’ll need glasses that are around the same shape, size, and thickness, as well as water and food coloring if you want to add color. You’ll also need something to tap against the glasses, like a spoon, fork, or metal chopstick. Add water to varying levels, arranging them from most to least-filled, and see if you can ring out a little tune.

Frozen Under the Sea Activity

Learn about ocean creatures with this fun activity with sea animal toys frozen in ice. Like the dino activity above, let kids experiment with a different way to melt the ice to see who can get theirs out first.

Summer Slime Recipes

4th of July Slime

Make a big batch of patriotic red, white, and blue slime for the kids at summer camp to play with and take home. They’ll love the slime-making process, combining each ingredient to get a stretchy, slimy mixture that’s super fun to play with. Glitter glue adds sparkle to this slime recipe.

Galaxy Slime

Reach for the stars with some stretchy galaxy slime. This is perfect for an outer space-themed summer camp!

Sand Slime

Going with an underwater theme? This sand slime recipe is a neat way to explore the textures of both sand and slime. Make sure you use craft sand for this activity, as natural sand you find outdoors may have bacteria and other organisms that you don’t want in your slime mixture.

Ocean Slime

If you’re doing an under-the-sea summer camp, this ocean slime is a must. It really looks like the beautiful blue waters of the ocean, but you can still see through it, too. Add seashells as you stretch and pull on them for a fun sensory experience.

Rainbow Slime

Learn about all the colors of the rainbow using our rainbow slime idea! You’ll make a batch of each color and then combine them to make a rainbow. The kids will really enjoy watching the colors mix as they twist, stretch, and play with the slime.

Sand Playdough

This sand playdough will give you total beach vibes! You’ll love that it’s a no-cook playdough recipe, taking only minutes to make. It has an interesting gritty texture that kids will love exploring.

Summer Nature Activities for Kids

Seed Bombs

Recycling and gardening are always valuable skills for kids to learn at summer camp. While we used construction paper to make our seed bombs, you can certainly recycle old newspapers, magazines, or scrap paper to make yours. Kids can take their seed bombs home to plant in their own gardens or in a plant pot.

Mason Jar Bird Feeder

Turn a simple mason jar into a bird feeder with some twine, a wooden dowel, and birdseed. It’s important to take care of our feathered friends, and making bird feeders provides kids with opportunities to birdwatch. 

Nature Scavenger Hunt

Let the kids work in pairs or teams to complete a fun nature scavenger hunt. The goal is to collect or observe each item on the list. This one is best for young children who need the visual representation of each item, but you can make a longer one for older children.

Watermelon Volcano

This activity is twice the fun. First, you get to scoop out all that yummy watermelon to enjoy. Second, kids always love fizzy science experiments, and this one is sure to be a hit. It’s your basic vinegar and baking soda reaction, but the colorful vinegar makes the bright fizzing action more fun.

4th of July Fizzy Stars

Add blue or red vinegar to white baking soda stars and let the fizzy fun begin!

Tie Dye Sharpie Shirts

Love tie-dye but hate the mess? There’s an easier way to do it! Let the kids color a design on the shirts in Sharpies instead. Rubbing alcohol helps spread the colors a bit so that they run together.

Bubble Wands

Let the kids design their own bubble wands and make a big batch of homemade bubbles for them to play with afterward. For the wands, you’ll need wire, beads, and pliers. To make the bubbles, grab some glycerin, dish soap, and water.  

More Fun Summer Camp Ideas

Rainbow Pop and Mentos Experiment from livinglifeandlearning.com: You’ve probably heard about the Coke and Mentos science experiment, but using a rainbow of colors is way more fun! Grab some red, orange, yellow, blue, and purple soda to conduct this fizzy experiment.

Solar Oven from littlebinsforlittlehands.com: Turn S’mores making into a science experiment by building a solar oven with a recycled pizza box, plastic wrap, black construction paper, and aluminum foil. In just 60 minutes (on a bright, sunny day) your chocolate and marshmallows will meld together, making the perfect S’more.

Ideas for Summer Camp Activities

Summer Would You Rather Questions from confessionsofparenting.com: Would you rather swim in the ocean or swim in a pool? Would you rather get stung by a bee or get bitten by a mosquito? You’ll find these questions and more in this fun and easy printable game for kids of all ages.

Summer Escape Room from teachingideas. ca: Escape rooms are super popular, and this is a fun summer-themed version that’s perfect for kids. There are six clues that the kids will work together to solve to “escape.” 

Glow in the Dark Bowling from craftsbyamanda.com: A few rounds of glow-in-the-dark bowling will have the kids pumped! Add glow sticks to empty water bottles, refill them with water, and get a glow-in-the-dark ball to get things rolling. This is a terrific activity for any age from toddler to teen!

Summer Themes

Slushie Sorbet Science from littlebinsforlittlehands.com: Try an edible science activity! Using apple juice, salt, ice, water, and food coloring, you can make yummy edible sorbet in just a few minutes by shaking the bag!

Puffy Sidewalk Paint from thebestideasforkids.com: Decorating the sidewalks is even more fun with this puffy sidewalk paint recipe! Put the paint in condiment bottles to make it easy to get neat lines and write words. 

Summer Camp Ideas at Home or in a Group

Nature Tic Tac Toe from messylittlemonster. com: Make a tic tac toe game out of items from nature. A wood slice is a perfect base, but you don’t need one. Use sticks to form the grid and chestnuts or rocks to serve as the game pieces, with X and O written in white paint.

Camping Bingo from artsyfartsymama.com: This fun and free printable camping bingo game are easy enough for preschoolers, but older kids will like it, too. The game board is full of fun camping-themed graphics that are easy for kids to identify.

Lemon Volcano from thebestideasforkids.com: It’s another classic acid-base reaction, but this time, instead of using vinegar, you’ll be using lemon juice to activate the baking soda.

Giant Chalk Keyboard from andnextcomesl.com: Musical kids will have such fun playing on the giant chalk keyboard. It’s a great way to learn the order of the keys.

Color Hunt from raisingdragons.com: Toddlers and preschoolers can practice their colors in a hands-on way with this nature-oriented color hunt. Grab leaves, flowers, sticks, etc. to match up with the appropriate colored clothespin.

Summer Camp Ideas

Cornhole from amber-oliver.com: Cornhole is a terrific game for summer camp because it’s incredibly simple for kids to learn to play. You get points if it lands on the board or goes into the hole. 

Football Toss from cherishedbliss.com: Kids can work on their aim with this fun football toss idea!

Shape Hopscotch from creativefamilyfun.net: Help toddlers and preschoolers learn their shapes with a happy game of hopscotch! Draw shapes on the sidewalk, toss a rock to see which one it lands on and call out the shape before hopping to it. 

Friendship Bracelets from kidsactivitiesblog.com: This is a classic summer camp activity! You don’t need a loom or special tools to make all sorts of different friendship bracelets. You can make your own square loom using simple materials like cardboard, embroidery thread, and a crayon.

Summer Activities for Kids

Balloon Experiments with Candy from learnplayimagine. com: Try different types of candy with soda to see which type can inflate a balloon the fastest. You may be surprised at the results!

Water Cup Races from allfortheboys.com: Hold a contest to see who can push a cup to the finish line the fastest using only a water gun to propel it forward!

Squirt Gun Targets from allfortheboys.com: Speaking of water guns, you’ll need some targets to work on your aim!

Tie Dye Shirts with Water Guns from Sixth Bloom: Or how about using those water pistols to tie dye shirts instead? This is way more fun than the traditional tie-dye method!

Squirt Painting from firefliesandmudpies.com: You can also use water guns to paint on canvas. You’ll have a colorful piece of art that’ll look great on your wall in no time. 

Bug Scavenger Hunt from messylittlemonster.com: Go out and explore the local area to see what sorts of interesting bugs you can find. Look for snails, butterflies, ladybugs, beetles, spiders, and more!

We hope you’ve enjoyed this list of creative summer camp activities. Pin it to come back when you’re ready to plan a summer of fun!

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25 Ideas for Fun Summer Camp Activities for Kids in 2022

Summer is that time of this year 2022 when everyone looks to escape from the mundane activities of life and indulge in some self-pampering. At the same time, it is a challenging period for the parents as the kids will be home all day and they need to be kept engaged else they will go lazy and spend most of their time playing PSP or watching television. Summer is, however, the perfect time for camping, especially for kids, as it is the time when most schools are on a break, and it is the best way of keeping them creatively engaged. The easiest way is the Summer Camps activities. With a lot of fun activities, the kids will be kept creatively engaged and away from mobiles.

These camps give individuals the opportunity to meet new people and make friends that they might not frequently acquaint themselves with. Therefore, summer camps are a time of great fun and enjoyment. The activities that are introduced at these camps are fun, interactive and educational at the same time. People learn how to work in teams and support each other in a task.

Listed below are the 25 best ideas for summer camp activities for kids that are fun, entertaining and interactive:

1. Outdoor Word Game For Kids:

This particular outdoor game is both fun and educational and is perfect for children. All you need to do is set up a sort of a scrabble game with huge letters that can be easily moved. These words will help spell out certain words. Teenagers would also love something like this as it gives them the opportunity to invest their time in learning new words that may come in handy in school.

2. Spray Painting :

To bring out the creativity in a person, an activity centred on spray painting is the perfect way to get those creative juices flowing. One of the easiest and best summer camp ideas is T-Shirt painting. All you need to do is provide plain white t-shirts and some cans of coloured spray paint and watch the magic happen. It will be quite surprising to see some of the whacky and original ideas that will flow from individuals. This will boost their creativity in them, and even you will be surprised by the beautiful outcome of it.

Read: Camping Advice for Beginners

3. Outdoor Twister:

One of the most popular games among the youth and children of our time and a great summer camp activity is Twister. A person will be in charge of monitoring the game and will call out colours which can be placed outdoors. Participants have the task of placing either their hands or legs on the same colour. A fun and exciting game that focuses on hand-eye coordination.

4. The Maze:

Are you looking for ideas for summer camp activities and games? Then here it is. One of the most fun games at a summer camp is the hallway maze game where a maze is constructed from either toilet paper or strings of paper. The chosen participant is then asked to make his way through the maze within a stipulated time frame without touching the paper. A competition is held between at least 3-5 individuals to decide a winner. This is one of the best and most entertaining summer camp ideas for kids and adults also.

5. The Minute To Win It Game:

This game involves the proper utilization of time. There are a lot of one-minute summer camp activities for kids. In one of such games, the participants are given a minute to balance either a cheerio or some other prop on a stick. The participant that manages to sustain it for a minute will win it all. This activity idea gives the best time to the whole summer camp.

6. Art And Craft :

Children always require fun activities to do. Therefore, to keep them preoccupied and also ensure that they remain productive, art and craft activities are a great way to keep them busy. From making pencil holders to cards, children can be creative when given some items to work with. This game is also useful for the child as a brain memory booster. This is one of the best summer camp activities for preschoolers that will bring out the hidden creativity from the kids and also make us aware of their potential and inclinations.

7. Hats From Paper Plates :

Pre-teens and teenagers can use their creativity to create fun hats from paper plates in the children’s summer camp. These adorable caps are quirky and creative. These types of ideas may lead to increase creativity levels in kids.

8. Kids Mini Olympics :

A fun way of keeping children excited is by organizing a mini Olympics at the children’s summer camp. These games will include running, cycling and even a relay race. These activities will keep children busy and will keep them preoccupied for a considerable amount of time and at the same time, increase their immunity and resistance power.

9. Parachute Games For Child:

The parachute game is always a hit among kids and teenagers and is a must summer camp activity for kids. A huge parachute is supported by a group of 5-6 children who then balance balls on it. This game helps in developing teamwork among the participants.

10. Chalk Twister :

Chalk twister can be said to be one of the best summer camp outdoor games for kids. It is pretty similar to the game already discussed before, outdoor twister. Children at a summer camp play this game pretty often, and it can be said to be one of the best games for both boys and girls, which can be played outside. All you will need is some chalk dust and make a surface with the help of that powdered chalk. There is nothing much to say about this game, as one can figure it out from the picture provided below. Chalk twist is a popular indoor game as well.

Lots of boys and girls prefer the chalk twister game over many other summer camp activities. The kids might get a little dirty. But they are having fun, and that’s all that matters.

11. Pool Noodle Javelin:

Pool needle javelin is one of the most harmless summer camp activities and is one of the most popular ones as well. It is practised quite often and can be said to be one of those activities which kids love doing. Generally, in this outdoor activity, one will have to throw a long balloon-like material through a ring which will be made of the same material as well. It is inexpensive and can be done almost anywhere. It is a quite popular weekend activity for kids as well.

12. Summer Camp Tug Of War For Kids:

Don’t confuse this with the intense version of this game, which is often done by adults as well. In this game, such a thick rope is not used, and it is generally a thin rope made of such a material which cannot harm the kids. Kids find the tug of war a pretty fun activity as well. Some kids find fun in physical activity, and this will be perfect for them and at the same time would maintain a safe distance between the kids, and this will prove to be less harmful and safer to the children who like to go physical. It is one of the best summer camp outdoor games for kids where kids are tested on their strength and strategy.

One should allow the kids to play tug of war more often to get them involved in a physical ability showoff.

Read: Fun Summer Camps for Children

13. Bicycle Games :

One of the most famous types of summer camp activities is bicycle games. Generally, most the summer camp for students offer this facility. If there are bicycles in your camp, then definitely allow your kids to make use of it. There is always room for friendly competition in this type of activity, and it can be said to be one of the best summer camp activities for kids.

14. Field Day :

Have a field day at your summer camp. It will turn out to be one of the best days you have ever experienced. One can easily have fun on a field day as there are so many things that can be done. The field day is one of the best summer camp activities for kids who prefer adventure more than indoor activities. It is safe, as it will be under the premises of the summer camp.

15. Vista Camps :

These are basically camping activities performed within the premises of the summer camps. One of the best features of these activities is that it includes more than one activity. There is -room to do a lot, and it can be said to be one of the best summer camp activities ever. Kids love getting involved in the vista camps, and this will be extremely beneficial for the parents as well. They can send them to their summer camp at their respective locations and sit back and relax, while they watch their kids grow and play. It is one of the best ways to spend your childhood days. Do send them to summer camps and take part in the numerous activities, if you’re planning to provide your kids with a healthy future.

16. Friendship Bracelets :

Making hand-made stuff is exciting for the kids. This activity is a really popular summer camp activity and is generally done by kids. It can be said to be a time-killer. Kids will be busy making new and innovative stuff out of literally nothing just by using their imagination. Friendship bracelets are a popular choice for the kids and can be said to be extremely enjoyable for the children and are thus one of the most famous summer camp indoor activities.

Kids have a simple mind, and a heart of gold with no worries and this is why they are filled with creative ideas. Making bracelets can prove to be a fun time for the kids, and they will have lots of fun making them. Another important fact is that when the kids are busy making these bracelets, the supervisors and the caretakers can take some time off and get some rest. Dealing and handling and managing kids can be hard for them and the trick to getting the kids involved with something they love and find joy in can be said to be a brilliant idea.

These bracelets can be made of almost anything and everything. The summer camp authority will provide them with the necessities, and the kids will be able to have a wonderful time making those things. Sometimes, what happens is that the supervisors arrange competitions (friendly competitions) to make the labour provided by the kids more active and this way they can lay a little more stress on their minds and create something extraordinary.

17. Stick Men :

This is a charming cute summer camp outdoor game for kids often played in summer camps. These are sticks, occupied by the tender tree branches and designing them as men. Colourful cloth material is used to beautify them, and hand-made artificial eyes are also attached to them to give them a lively look. This is done by both boys and girls. Children love the art of making new things, and this will be perfect for those who have a creative mind. It is a part of summer camp arts and crafts activities and the kid, who does it the best is always unique and rewarded with something. The competition is always friendly, though. The caretakers ensure the fact that the competition between the kids always remains healthy, and it is part of their job.

18. Leaf Crown :

This activity involves making crowns out of mere leaves. It is an extremely innovative idea, and a lot of kids love this. It can be said to be one of the best activities in the summer camp for girls. Who wouldn’t want to get involved in this game? Parents also allow their kids to get involved in this activity as it is harm-free, and the kids find fun performing it as well. This is one of the best activities for the kids who visit summer camps quite often.

19. Making a Compass :

These are basically magnetic compasses made by the kids. The necessaries for making it are provided by the caretakers, or the kids bring it from home. Only a few daily necessary things are needed to make the compass.

Making a compass can be said to be one of the most lovable activities for kids. They love making such innovative things with the help of the most simple supplies possible. These are the activities which make the kids grow mentally. They can make complete use of their mind and create stuff which the adults don’t even think about. This is basically what is so special about the kids. They know so much due to their open and free mind, which is full o innovative ideas. One of the best summer camp activities can be said to be making a compass. Making a compass is one of the best past times for the kids. It will work and will prove to be an effective and productive time-killer.

All you require is a bowl of water and some pins (sewing pins will do) or needles. You will also require a standard magnet and some other things such as foam, cork, and paper.

20. Nature Hike Project :

This is more of a scavenger field project. It depends on what you can salvage and make use of that to create an interactive bracelet. The kids will look for a lot of colourful stuff and generally these are not artificial materials. These will be more natural materials provided by mother nature. It is one of the best summer camp activities a kid can ever get involved in. These types of summer camp activities are generally performed in counties such as the USA and other similar places but not in India. Indian parents still show a conservative attitude and don’t let their well-grown and well-kept kids get involved in this activity as they think they might find something which in turn might be harmful to their kids only. That is the only reason why not many summer camp destinations are not available in India.

21. Bird-Feeder :

This is again something that kids will have to create. They can make this pretty easily with the help of daily household necessities. It is a pretty simple and fun activity, and the kids love it, as the majority find fun in creating and implementing new stuff. Later on, these are used to feed the birds as well, which means that the kids are making something which is useful, and they are taught to be sustainable.

For making the bird feeder, you will require some bird seeds, some flour, and water. Now you will have to mix them in this order – a handful of bird seeds along with 2tbsp of water and 2tbsp of flour as well. You will have to think as if you’re making a cookie. That is why a kid will have to put all these inside a cookie maker and mix it properly first. Squish it until it is solid and after it is done, try to make some round-shaped cookies from it. This is very exciting, and almost every kid out there will love it. Later on, these will be hung on the trees so that the birds can eat from them.

22. Crayon Rubbing Art :

Crayon rubbing art can be said to be one of the best summer camp activities ever. Kids love to paint with the help of their hands, and they are further provided with beautiful shades of crayons as well. The textures and designs that the kids make are wonderful. They also place some objects here and there to make the design look extremely attractive. Some kids are so creative that we get to learn new tricks from them. One of the best ways to get the kids involved with something interesting in hanging them with a bunch of crayons. Crayon painting is harmless, and all the kids can do it together with all their hearts as there will be no competition in this case. There should be a professional watch kept on the kids as some tend to taste and eat almost anything and everything they are handed.

23. Land Art :

These are arts made on the ground with the help of hand and mere innocent imagination. The kid would find it exciting to try something innovative with the help of artificial mud which has been arranged by the summer camp authority. Land art is a famous holiday and kinder garden activity for the kids also. There are many summer camps out there which promote land art as one of their prime features. This activity is so interesting and engaging that it tops the list of summer camp activities.

The kids often go for hats and boots designs. Sometimes, they make heart-shaped designs with the help of broken tree branches. This can be said to be one of the best time-pass tricks to get the kids involved. Wind chimes are also a popular land art activity.

24. Stick Art :

You can figure out from the name that these are mere sticks arranged to make something awesome. What the kids do is dream throughout the night, and the next morning they try to look for even better, they want to make it and make their dreams a reality. They don’t have any limitations and emotional barriers, and that is one of the reasons why some of the kids are so successful at what they do.

Read: Must Have Camping Accessories

25. Fence Art :

These are generally huge, and for these reasons, they are called giant fence arts. Whenever the parents take their kids outside for some outdoor fun, they allow them to take part in this activity. A lot of summer camps allow the children to practice this activity. With the help of this, they can explore the outside world pretty quickly.

Summer camp is the best way to keep the kids engaged and bring out the creativity in them when the schools are off. And if you have time and love to spend time with kids go ahead and organize some summer camp for kids considering all the summer camp activities ideas that we have provided here. It is the best way of developing the kids, along with some side income.

Frequently Asked Question and Answers:

1. Give a list of Summer Camp activities for kids.

Ans: Here is a list of some of the best summer camp activities for kids:

• Making a solar oven
• Creating a Mentos geyser
• Learning density with rainbow jars
• Erupting a backyard volcano
• Launching Alka-Seltzer Rockets
• Creating leaf rubbing collages
• Painting rainbows with bubbles
• DIY playdough
• DIY paper kites
• Get messy with balloon splatter painting

2.

Is there any summer camp for toddlers?

Ans: There are many academies that offer a summer camp for toddlers. They include activities such as tell me a story, show and tell, my neighbours and me etc. the trainer uses fingerplays, songs and movement activities to keep the toddlers engaged and interested.

3. What are fun things to do while camping?

Ans: Many summer camps stay in camps where kids stay in the camps. The following are some ideas for summer camp activities and games to be done at night:

• Making shadow puppets
• Playing flashlight tag
• Playing dark room
• Stargazing
• Releasing sky lanterns

4. How to entertain kids while camping?

Ans: The following are some of the activities to entertain kids while camping:

• Going for a nature walk
• Cooking on bonfire
• Watching animals
• Tell stories by the fire
• Playing board games
• Make leaf prints

5.

Why is Summer Camp important?

Ans: Summer Camp is important as it enables the kids to become independent and boosts their self-confidence in them. It provides a structured opportunity for the kids to grow and learn new and unique things. Kids learn to make new friends and share things.

101 Summer Activities For Kids

Keeping your kids entertained all summer long can be a daunting task. That’s why our camp directors at Fitness by the Sea have compiled this useful guide of 101 summer activities for kids.

Rest assured, you don’t have to be at our Santa Monica kids camp or the Pacific Palisades to have a blast with these activities. These games, crafts, and projects are for kids everywhere!

Attention Parents: Located in Los Angeles, CA but can’t keep your child at home during the summer because of work? Find out more about our Los Angeles summer camp opportunities!

Without further ado, here’s our hand-picked list of summer activities for kids.

Have Some (Educational) Fun With Science Projects!

These educational activities for kids will allow your child to have a blast while learning some awesome new things!

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1. Make a Solar Oven

Teach your kids the ins-and-outs of solar energy with this fun, easy, and delicious project that uses the power of the sun to bake s’mores!

2. Create a Mentos Geyser in Your Backyard

For an exciting chemistry lesson, take your budding scientists into the back yard and build a mentos geyser.

3. Learn About Density With Rainbow Jars

Educate your kiddos on the concept of density by layering common household liquids like dish soap, honey, corn syrup, and olive oil to create these beautiful rainbow jars.

4. Erupt A Backyard Volcano

What better way to learn about the science of volcanoes than by creating your own! 

5. Experiment With Rainbow Colored Flowers & Celery

Have some fun with food coloring while teaching your children about flowers and plants with this experiment. All you need is white flowers or celery stalks, food coloring, water, and a bit of patience. 

6. Launch Alka-Seltzer Rockets

Introduce your kids to physics and space with the exciting outdoor experiment. To create these easy-to-make rockets you will only need a few supplies: a canister, alka seltzer, water, tape, and this adorable rocket template. 

7. Teach Your Kids About Weather With a Tornado in a Jar

Entertain and educate your kids with this five-minute science project that only requires a tall jar, tap water, and dish soap. It doesn’t get easier than this! 

8. Discover How Clouds Make Rain

This indoor experiment requires minimal supplies and is an easy way to teach kids about the science behind rain clouds! 

9. Delve Into Chemistry with This Rock Candy Project

For an educational and delicious chemistry lesson, we love this rock candy experiment! You will need a few basic baking ingredients and some time to observe the formation of rock crystals.  

10. Watch Water Walk

Learn about the many properties of water and paper towels with this fascinating experiment! Like many of the above projects, you will only need basic household supplies including tap water, mason jars, food coloring, and paper towels. 

 

Get Creative with Arts & Crafts

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11. Create Leaf Rubbing Collages

Why not incorporate the outdoors into your arts and crafts by making a leaf rubbing collage? 

12. Paint Rainbows with Bubbles

To create these bubble blower paintings, mix bubbles with food color of choice and then use bubble wands to blow the bubble mixture onto the paper of your choice for creative and beautiful designs that will delight your kids! 

13. Get Messy With Some Splatter Painting

For a cheap, easy, and fun outdoor art project, you cannot go wrong with splatter painting! 

14. Make Your Own Playdough

Your children will first get to entertain themselves as they prepare the playdough with this recipe. After making the playdough, they will have a fun craft to play with all afternoon.

15. Build DIY Paper Kites

Making your own DIY kites and taking them out to your favorite sunny spot on a breezy day is the perfect way to spend a summer day with your kids! 

16. String Together Macaroni Rainbows

This is a great opportunity to let your kids explore their artistic side while creating a beautiful decoration they can show off to friends and family! You can learn all about creating these adorable macaroni rainbows here. 

17. Cool Off With Frozen Paint Cubes

Creating beautiful art with frozen paint cubes is a wonderful way for your children to keep cool while they discover their inner artist! 

18. Enjoy The Outdoors With Balloon Splatter Painting

To experiment with balloon splatter painting, fill small-sized balloons with brightly-colored (washable) paint and secure them to your canvas with thumbtacks. Then, have your children take a screwdriver and pop the balloons.  

19. Sculpt Sunshine Filled Memories with Sunshine Clay

Perfect for the warm and sunny days of summer, this sunshine clay craft will allow you to utilize the hours of sunlight for a fun art project with your kids. 

20. Get Beachy With A Sea Shell Sand Craft

Visiting the beach this summer? Be sure to collect plenty of shells so your kids can try out this fun seashell craft which uses colored sand to create beautiful mementos. 

Want some more great crafts? Check out our 30 favorite summer crafts for kids, instructions included!

 

Check out some of the Creative Activities offered at our Day Camp in Los Angeles!

Explore Nature

Nature can be full of activities for kids. These activities are low cost and allow your child to explore outside!

21. Host A Nature Scavenger Hunt

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Keep your kids entertained for hours with a fun and educational outdoor scavenger hunt! Check out this free printable with ideas to help them explore and discover the world around them.

22. Make DIY Bird Feeders

This an easy way to help your children explore nature and learn about the bird populations in your area. All you need is a toilet paper roll, bird seed, peanut butter, and VOILA, you have bird feeders. 

23. Identify Clouds

We love this cloud identifier project! This interactive project will help your kids enjoy the fresh air while learning all about the different types of cloud formations. Find a free cloud viewer printable, here! 

24. Create An Outdoor Fairy Garden

Let your children explore nature and learn about gardening by building an adorable fairy garden in your backyard!

25. Find Your Inner Hippie With Nature Tie Dye Shirts

Your kids will love this creative tie dye project that allows them to explore their artistic side in nature and create a beautiful shirt they can show off later. 

26. Go On A Backyard Bug Hunt

Teach your kids about the different types of bugs and get them out of the house with this easy checklist! 

27.

Preserve Nature Discoveries with A Collage

Have your children collect their favorite flowers and foliage from your yard to create a lovely nature craft collage. This activity is the perfect combination of nature exploration and art! 

28. Have Some Fun With Playdough Nature Prints

This is another artistic way to explore nature with your children! Simply have them collect items as they explore nature and save those memories by imprinting them in playdough! 

29. Plant Grass Seed in Eggs for an Adorable Gardening Lesson

Help your kids discover their green thumb with this adorable gardening project. All you need is egg shells, dirt, and your seeds of choice! 

30. Get Messy With Mud Paint

We love this fun and messy mud paint recipe that will keep your children entertained and out of the house all afternoon! 

Cool Off with Outdoor Water Activities

Everything is more fun when you add water! Make sure you have your bathing suit on, because these activities for kids are bound to get you wet!

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31.

Make Water Balloon Piñatas

For an afternoon of fun, why not set up a clothesline with water balloon piñatas for your kids and their friends! It doesn’t get easier than this.

32. Create a DIY Waterslide

A cheap alternative to a day at the waterpark a water slide in your backyard! All you will need is a large tarp and a hose. ¹

33. Start a Game of Water Jump Rope

Water jump rope is a super easy way to keep your kids entertained on a hot day!

34. Build a Pool Noodle Sprinkler

Feeling crafty? Try replicating this easy and affordable pool noodle sprinkler for hours of water fun on the cheap! 

35. Make PVC Pipe Water Shooters

If your kids love to build and create, they will love this activity! It does require a few more supplies than the other activities listed here, but is a great interactive activity to keep your kiddos entertained.

36. Have a Water Balloon Toss

Repurpose milk jugs for an old-fashioned water balloon toss! This will keep your kids busy and cool even on the hottest summer days.  

37. Create a DIY Dunk Bucket

This project is guaranteed to keep your family laughing all day long! For hours of memorable fun, learn how to build your own here. 

38. Plan A Game of Water Balloon Baseball

We are big fans of this twist on the classic game! Get the whole neighborhood involved for an afternoon of water fun in the sun. 

39. Get Creative With A Water Bottle Sprinkler

This interactive activity is perfect for kids that love to build and create. Even better, they can cool off with the finished product! 

40. Make Your Own Water Balloon Parachutes

Your children will be amazed with these easy, yet magical, water balloon parachutes. 

 

If your child loves the water, consider signing them up for camp with us at Fitness by the Sea to experience all of the water activities we offer every summer.

Stay Active With These Indoor Activities for Kids on Rainy Days

There’s fun to be had even on rainy days. Check out these cool activities that will help keep your kids entertained while inside.

41. Set Up A DIY Laser Maze

Photo Credit: Princess Pinky Girl via Little Bins for Little Hands

Fans of action-packed films will love this DIY laser maze. 

42. Plan A Game of Indoor Bowling

Who is up for a game of bowling that doesn’t involve a trip out of the house? Have hours of rainy day fun with this budget-friendly version. 

43. Play Indoor Tape Games

We love all of these indoor tape games from What Mom’s Love! The possibilities are endless for long days stuck indoors with bored kiddos. 

44. Have an Indoor Scavenger Hunt

Who says you have to be outdoors to have a fun scavenger hunt? Try a lego, puzzle piece or color chip hunt for hours of active fun on your next rainy day.

45. Get Playful with Balloon Tennis

Just because it’s raining doesn’t mean you can’t have a good game of tennis! We can’t wait to try out this indoor version with balloons and fly swatters! 

46.

Make Your Own Circus Ring Toss

This activity is the perfect combination of crafty and active! First have you kids create this brightly colored ring toss, and when it dries, they can engage in circus fun all day long! 

47. Build Your Own Indoor Golf Course

Bring your favorite game of mini golf indoors with this adorable DIY golf course. This is another game that provides double the entertainment as your kids get to construct it before they play!

48. Get Your Kids Moving With Paper Plate Skating

If you have an aspiring figure skater on your hands, they will love this simple indoor activity. All you need is paper plates or dryer sheets. 

49. Start a Game of Laundry Basket Skee Ball

Bring this arcade favorite into your home for free with this fun tutorial. All you need is laundry baskets, balls, cardboard, and a little creativity! 

50. Try Your Hand At Juggling

For some circus fun, why not let your kids try juggling! This is a great way to keep them active while also working on development of motor skills.  

 

Even at our beach camp, we make sure our campers have just as many activities in the shade so they stay safe and have things to do on a rainy day- check out some of our fun shade ideas here.

Introduce Your Kids to Cooking

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51. Create Fruit Rainbow Pizzas

These colorful pizzas are both fun for kids to create and delicious to eat! Find full directions, here. 

52. Make Ice Cream in a Bag

Your kids are going to be amazed by this easy and interactive ice cream in a bag recipe! All you need is a few basic ingredients – no fancy equipment required! 

53. Practice Counting and Spelling with Pretzel Letters

This baking project is both an educational and delicious way to entertain your children with cooking! For a recipe and tips, check out this post. 

54. Learn Your Numbers with Cookie Dominoes

Here is another educational cooking activity that we just can’t get enough of! Your kids will love learning how to count and bake with this fun recipe for cookie dominoes.  

55. Whip Up Some Bread in a Bag

This activity serves up some pretty awesome bread alongside a lesson in chemistry! Learn how to set up the perfect bread in a bag activity, here.

56. Create One-of-a-Kind Pancake Art

Start the day off right with this playful pancake idea! Simply whip up some pancake batter, add food coloring, place the mixture into bottles, and get ready for some crazy looking breakfast food! 

57. Try Your Hand at Bread Painting

The creator of this recipe describes it as “art you can eat.” What could be better! Check out her recipe for edible paint here. 

58. Test Out a No-Bake Recipe

If you don’t trust your kids around a hot stove top, there are plenty of no bake recipes that can introduce them to cooking in a risk-free environment. 

59. Create Adorable Fruit & Chocolate Lady Bugs

You and your children are going to have a blast with this cute (and healthy) recipe! The best part is… it only has three ingredients! 

60.

Make Butter in a Jar

Give your kids a taste of pioneer life by letting them make their very own butter in a jar! In addition to getting a batch of butter, you can use this as an interactive history lesson. 

Explore Fine Arts with Dance, Theater, Music, & Song!

61. Create Your Own Kazoos

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We love an activity that doubles as a craft, and this project does just that! Learn how to create your own here. 

62. Set Up A Puppet Theater

Incorporate theater and song into your children’s play with this DIY puppet theater! 

63. Do Some Drumming

Let your kids make some noise and learn a thing or two about music with these 20 activities to learn and play with drums. 

64. Explore Creative Movement With Streamers

This is a great way to introduce your kids to the idea of dance and creative movement. To get started, check out these six ideas that we love! 

65. Make a Story Telling Jar

A storytelling jar filled with prompts is a great way to get your kids to explore their theatrical interests. Ready to get started? Find a free printable, here!

66. Play with Water Xylophones

Teach your kids about science and music with this super fun water xylophone experiment! This project only requires a few ingredients and will provide your children with tons of entertainment.

67. Combine Dance & Art With Freeze Dance Painting

For this freeze dance painting activity, all you need is a large canvas, some paint, and a kid that loves to dance.

68. Learn About Rhythm With Basketball

We love this activity for teaching kids about rhythm with Rhythm Basketball! Learn more about this unique approach to musical theory here. 

69. Teach Your Kids About Percussion with DIY Rainsticks

Keep your children busy all day long with this DIY rainstick project! It only takes a few supplies and will result in an instrument your kids can play with for weeks. 

70. Play Charades

This fun and easy classic is a great way to introduce your children to improv theater! For a fun list of ideas, check out this list at Moms & Munchkins.  

There are so many different Arts and Creative Activities at Fitness by the Sea, check out our activities for some more ideas!

Get Out of the House With These (Free) Field Trip Ideas

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71. Plan a Family Hike

Planning a family hike will give you kids something to look forward to all week long! To find fun trails near your city, check out this easy search tool from All Trails.

72. Take Your Kids on a Factory Tour

This is a great way to teach your kids about where the things they use come from! It is a great educational opportunity to open their eyes to the world around them.

73. Schedule a Fire Station Tour

What kid doesn’t want to meet a firefighter? In addition to being a fun outing for your kiddos, this is also a great opportunity to educate them about fire safety.

74. Volunteer in the Community

Helping the community as a family is an excellent way to teach your children about the value of community service. We love this list of ideas from Parents Magazine. 

75. Visit Your Public Library

In addition to providing your kids with educational and fun reading, many public libraries also offer free activities for children. Find your local library here. 

76. Pick Berries at a Local Farm

Visiting a local farm to pick berries, corn, or tomatoes is a wonderful way to teach your children about where their food comes from.

77. Plan a Trip to a Trash or Recycling Facility

This is another activity that will both entertain and educate your children. You can find some educational materials for your recycling center field trip at PBS.

78. Tour Your Local Post Office

Contact your local post office to see if they offer free tours! Your kids will love learning about how the mail delivery system works.

79. Visit a Museum

Research the museums in your area to find out which ones offer free admissions! Many museums admit children below a certain age in for free or have one day a week that is open to the public free of charge.

80. Plan a Picnic at Your Favorite Park

Have your kids help you plan and pack a picnic for you to enjoy in your park of choice! This is a free and easy way to get out of the house and enjoy some fresh air.

Quiet Indoor Activities for Kids to Wind Down

81. Make a Toddler Zen Tray

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This is a wonderful sensory activity to help toddlers wind down before nap time. Make your own with a tray, rice, and paint brushes! 

82. Build a DIY Tent to Read In

Have you kids put together a DIY tent to relax and read in. If you are looking for tent ideas, we love this list for inspiration! 

83. Try These Sponge Blocks

These easy-to-make sponge blocks are a quiet alternative to traditional building blocks. 

84. Put Together “Busy Bags”

This is a great way to keep your kids occupied while you sleep in on a weekend or get some work done in the afternoon. Check out these 10 totally unique ideas from Powerful Mothering. 

85. Create Quiet Time Boxes

Similarly, these quiet time boxes filled with coloring supplies, toy animals, and other supplies, are an excellent way to keep your toddler entertained when they just don’t want to take a nap! 

86. Introduce Your Kids to Yoga

This is the perfect way to help your kids wind down after a long day of fun in the sun. Not sure where to start? Check out these 30 easy yoga poses for children. 

87. Do Some Old-Fashioned Coloring

Coloring is an easy way to help kids fit in some quiet time in the midst of our always-on-the-go culture! For ideas, check out these free printable resources suggested by Inner Child Fun. 

88. Enjoy a Puzzles & Pajamas Picnic

This is such a sweet way to help kids relax after a busy day! All you need is some puzzles, pajamas, and your kid’s favorite snacks. 

89. Play the Quiet Game

If you are in need of some much-deserved relaxation, set you kids up with this fun twist on the quiet game! It will keep you kids entertained while you regain some much-needed sanity.

90. Set up Your Very Own Drive-In Theater

Your kids are going to love this one-of-a-kind movie viewing idea! The best part is, you can first focus on making DIY cars out of cardboard box and then sit back and relax while your children enjoy the fruits of their labor. 

Have Friends Over For Some Classic Summer Games

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91. Play Capture the Flag

Remember this classic camp game from your youth? If you are rusty on the rules, check out this convenient overview. 

92. Host a Friendly Game of Dodgeball

Another classic childhood game, dodgeball is certain to keep your children and their friends entertained and active for hours. You can review the official rules here.

93. Cool Off With Water Balloon Volleyball

A twist on one of our favorite games, water balloon volleyball follows similar rules. All you will need is towels, water balloons, and a net! 

94. Test Out Some Relay Races

There are endless possibilities for creative and entertaining relay races. Some of our favorites are on this list. 

95. Set Up A Backyard Obstacle Course

Your kids and their friends will love competing to see who can complete the obstacle course first! Need inspiration? Check out this guide from Simple Kids. 

96. Host a Backyard Olympics

For an afternoon of epic summer fun, why not host a backyard competition for the neighborhood kids? We love these creative ideas for hosting your very own backyard Olympic games. 

97. Introduce Your Kids to Classic Team Sports

An afternoon of outdoor fun with your kids and their friends is the perfect opportunity to introduce them to classic sports like baseball, volleyball, and soccer.

98. Teach Them Parachute Games

Remember parachute games from your childhood? It’s time to invest in your very own parachute so you can teach your kids and their friends what it’s all about. For ideas, check out these parachute games and activities for kids. 

99. Start a Game of Tag

Who doesn’t love a good game of tag? For twists on the classic school yard game, check out this list from Ultimate Camp Resource.

100. Create A Mini Golf Course in Your Backyard

Instead of taking your kids and their friends to the local mini golf course, wow them with this adorable mini golf course! 

101. Send Your Kid to Summer Camp!

According to the American Camp Association, there are many benefits of sending your kids to summer camp including the development of social skills, character building, and community living skills. If you are located in Southern California, we’d LOVE to have your children join our Fitness by the Sea family for some fun this summer! We have both a Pacific Palisades and a Santa Monica kids camp. Nothing beats summer camp when it comes to fun activities for kids!

References

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10 Wonderful Summer Camp Activities For Kids Of All Ages

Involve your child in fun and frolic to help them beat the heat and sweat.

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Summer is here, and your kids couldn’t be more excited. To start this summer vacation on a fun note, we have curated a list of summer camp activities for kids. These activities will keep your kids engaged for hours and away from gadgets. So this vacation, add some fun to their daily routine with these activities. Read on to find out what these activities are like and choose your favorite ones.

1. Nature Trail:

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You Will Need:

• Items like pens, sunglasses, can, skipping rope, plastic cup and so on
• Pencil
• Pen
• Paper

How To:

1. Plant the items mentioned above in the park.

2. You can hide it in the leaves or behind the trees or hang on the tree branches.

3. Write down the items on a sheet of paper and give a copy of it to your kid.

4. Now tell the kids to explore the trail and locate the items mentioned in the list.

5. Do not set any time limit, as you have to let them enjoy the beauty of nature as well.

2. Drive-In Movie:

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You Will Need:

• A large box
• Construction paper
• Tape
• A white cloth
• Projector

How To:

1. Tell your kid to draw and cut out the wheels from the construction paper.

2. Wrap the box with the construction or wrapping paper.

3. Stick the wheels to the sides of the box.

4. Arrange the outdoor movie using a projector and white cloth and let kids have fun in the camp.

5. Do not forget to give them some popcorn and other snacks to munch while watching the movie. This is the simplest and most satisfying kids summer camp activities you must try in this vacation.

3. Measure The Tree:

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You Will Need:

• Nothing

How To:

1. Make each kid stand near the tree and ask them to measure it.

2. To measure, tell the children to bend over and see the top of the tree.

3. If they cannot see the top, then tell them to move back until they can.

4. When they can see the top, they are as far away from the tree as its height.

5. The method used here is trigonometry. When we look at the top of the tree at 45-degree angle, then the height of the tree is same as the distance we are from the tree.

4. Egg Carton Fire Starter:

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You Will Need:

• Cardboard egg carton
• Candles
• Sunflower seeds, twigs, lint, and leaves or shredded paper
• Cookie sheet
• An old pan

How To:

1. Tell your kid to cut off the lid of the egg carton and place on the cookie sheet.

2. Fill each space of the egg carton with Sunflower seeds, lint, twigs, and leaves or shredded paper. Lint would be the best as it catches fire easily.

3. Put the candles in a pan, ensuring that only the wax and wick goes in.

4. Place the saucepan on the stove to melt the wax.

5. Pour the hot wax on each section of the egg carton. Make sure the wax gets into the sides of the egg carton. Leave it to cool and harden.

6. To use the carton to start a fire, place it underneath a wooden pile and light the bottom of the egg carton.

5. Stump:

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You Will Need:

• Rope
• Crates

How To:

1. Place the crate 6 to 12 feet apart on the ground.

2. Make each player stand on the crate.

3. The players have to relax or pull a rope, trying to force the opponent step down her crate.

6. Earthball:

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You Will Need:

• Balloon or beach ball

How To:

1. The activity requires kids to keep the balloon or beach ball in the air without letting it touch the ground. No child can touch the ball twice.

2. Tell the kids to set a goal for the number of hits. After meeting their first goal, kids can increase the target and see how much they can accomplish.

3. If the children are struggling, give them time to review their strategy and create a plan for the next round.

7. Make A Tree Guide:

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You Will Need:

• Scrapbook
• Pen
• Tape

How To:

1. This summer camp activity for kids will help them to learn and to identify the trees by their seeds, leaves, bark and shape.

2. Walk around the camp with your kid and collect leaves and seeds from the trees. Make your kid rub the bark properly. Tape the leaves on each page of the scrapbook.

3. Now ask your kid these questions:

• What is the shape of the tree?
• Does the tree have nuts, fruits or flowers?
• How did the bark feel like?
• Does any creature use the trees for shelter or food?

4. When you are back home, use the tree identification guide to help your kid identify the trees he found in the camp. Tell him to label the pages with the proper names.

8. Sun Upcycled Crayons:

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You Will Need:

• Plastic cups
• Plastic cling film
• Crayons
• Aluminum foil

How To:

1. Cut off the top of the plastic cup and put pieces of crayons in it.

2. Place the cups on the aluminum foil and cover with a plastic cling film.

3. Place the crayons in the sunniest area of the camp and leave it for the day.

4. Kids will see that the crayons have melted.

9. Make Campfire Scones:

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You Will Need:

• Fruits like bananas, berries, and strawberries
• Mini marshmallows
• Chocolate chips
• Waffle ice cream cone
• Tin foil

How To:

1. Chop the fruits into tiny bits.

2. Then combine with the mini marshmallows and chocolate chips and mix well.

3. Add the mixture to the waffle cones and wrap with the tin foil.

4. Set the barbecue grill.

5. When the coals turned gray, place the cones over the grill. The yummy Fruit and S’mores cones will be ready in 5 to 7 minutes. This is such a fun summer camp activities for kids to enjoy their vacation.

10. Play Chalk Twister:

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You Will Need:

• Colorful chalks
• Dice

How To:

1. Tell the kids to color make large circles on the ground or driveway.

2. Position the kids on the opposite ends of the ‘self-made twister mat’.

3. Roll the dice to find out what color the kids need to move to next.

4. The kid who manages to bend himself into a ridiculous shape will be the winner.

1. Why do parents send their children to summer camp?

A summer camp is a supervised program where children live and work in a community-like setup for a few days to weeks. The idea of summer camp is to expose children to different environments and situations that can help them learn essential life skills, such as positive conflict management and self-reliance.

2. What are the advantages & disadvantages of summer camps?

Advantages
Summer camps make children indulge in activities that help them learn new social and interpersonal skills, such as teamwork and problem-solving, which makes them more responsible and self-sufficient. They spend quality time with children of similar age, have fun, and make new friends, boosting their self-esteem and confidence.

Disadvantages
If a child doesn’t adjust to a summer camp well, they may feel lonely. An ill-planned summer camp with issues such as the unavailability of essentials such as clean drinking water, can make children uncomfortable and stressed. Children may hurt themselves while doing adventurous activities. Above all, there’s a risk that they may fall under bad influence and learn unacceptable behavior.

If you are organizing a summer camp-style outing for your children, these exciting summer camp activities for kids can help you make it a memorable one! From nature trails to making campfire scones, these entertaining activities can help your children stay engaged. Besides, they will let you spend quality fun time with your children. So read through these ideas and pick the ones your children will enjoy the most. Click pictures and make videos to capture memories that you and your child can cherish together later.

 

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Sports game Call of the Jungle for work in summer camps or playgrounds

The scenario of a sports event is intended for teachers, organizers, educators, to work in summer camps or playgrounds. Two teams take part in the game – “predators” and “herbivores”. Herbivores play in yellow T-shirts, on which images of animals: “elephant”, “panda”, “koala”, “monkey”. Predators play in red jerseys. Animals: crocodile, lion, panther, leopard. The winners get a banana or a bone. The game uses riddles, poems.

Hall decoration: “Call of the Jungle” sign, animal toys, flowers, sun, balloons.

During the classes.

Host: Hello, dear guys, dear guests and spectators! You are in the jungle today. Who lives in the jungle? That’s right, there live animals predators and herbivores. So we will have four teams: one team is predators, and the second is herbivores. Our entertainment is considered open! I announce the rules of the competition: for each victory in the relay races, the team receives one predator – bones, and herbivores – a banana

One team is called “Predators”, the other “Herbivores”.

The Predators team consists of the following representatives of the fauna: lynx, lion, marten, wolf, tiger, jaguar, leopard, hyena, crocodile, panther.

The Herbivore team includes: buffalo, antelope, elephant, rhinoceros, gazelle, zebra, giraffe, camel, kangaroo, koala.

Each participant of both teams has a plate with the name and image (drawing) of the animal he plays on his chest. For each competition, the team receives the corresponding points. At the same time, for “Predators” one point corresponds to one bone, for “Herbivores” – one banana. For this, 30 copies of bones and bananas were prepared (they were made of cardboard). At the beginning of the competition, the host of the game introduces all the members of the teams.

Host: And now we begin our competition.

Host:

We invite guests from all yards.

The more the merrier.

What happened to us here?

You will find out now:

Pine turned into a liana

And called us to the jungle.

There is a crocodile here, oddly enough,

Got a kangaroo, got a monkey0003

There are many other animals here.

In general, we are called to the jungle!

So, teams are created, roles are distributed.

So let’s start our competition. All together: Jungle … (name).

1.competition: “In the grass.”

Oh, our work is difficult:

Animals are hunted,

No matter how we miscalculate,

Escape from the hunters.

The teams are lined up one by one behind the start line.

You must run a snake between the pins, come back.

On a signal, the first child runs on his toes with a snake between the pins, runs around the landmark, returns to his team, passes the baton to another player. The rest of the players do the same. The winner is the team that completes the task faster and more correctly.

2. COMPETITION “WOUNDED BEAST”

Ah, what a disaster!

The poor beast sits and cries.

The paw was wounded by a forest beast –

You have to jump on one.

Relay race with jumps on one leg.

3.Competition. “Kapkan” Relay with hoop

Oh, what a flaw we have

A terrible beast fell into a trap

How could this happen

Gotta get free

Relay with a hoop. First, the first member of the team runs, then another member climbs into the hoop, and two of them run. This continues until the entire team is in the hoop. If the team does not fit inside the hoop, then the rest of the participants hold on to its edges. The winning team gets four points, the losing team gets two.

4.Competition. “Jumping over bumps”

In a straight line, bumps (10 – 15 pieces) are laid out in front of each team. The hummocks are made of pieces of plywood or thick cardboard, 30 by 30 cm in size. The hummocks are located at different distances from each other (the maximum distance between the hummocks is 1 meter). Team members, on a signal, begin to jump from “bump” to “bump”, without touching the ground. Back the participant runs in a simple way and passes the baton to the next participant. The winning team gets five points, the losing team gets three. If, in the process of moving over bumps, the team touches the ground three times (the participant jumps past the bump), it is penalized by one point.

Game with spectators

Team Predators.

Visited something often, green to us … (crocodile)

Having fun like a child, our perky redhead… (lion cub)

Ready for sports games, severe saber-toothed … (tiger)

Somewhere hiding in the woods, very cunning … (fox)

Came to visit, began to roar, intemperate … (bear)

Team “Herbivores”

A huge wardrobe has outgrown, wonderful … (giraffe)

He came to us today – big and strong, kind (elephant)

Here from the jungle in the morning, galloped . .. (kangaroo)

In the desert, he loves hard work, our hardy … (camel)

Who always wears a vest? Visiting (zebra) comes to us!

COMPETITION “MYSTERIES”

I swam in a puddle, remained dry (goose)

Near the spring, the house was built from needles (anthill)

Like an arrow flies, midges eats (swallow)

In the morning he sings loudly, he invites everyone to the field (lark)

Each of you here knows the record holder in the style of “breaststroke” (frog)

A mouse is not a mouse, I live in a field, I breathe in the wild (hamster)

Fan Contest Interesting questions.

1. Which of the animals has the surname Toptygin? (Bear)

2. Who is considered the king of beasts? (lion)

3. What animal helps to cross the road? (zebra)

4. Who is most often “hammered” in dominoes? (goat)

5. Who is called Patrikeevna by patronymic? (fox)

6. What is the name of the smallest horse? (pony)

7. What animal gave the name to a short men’s hairstyle? (hedgehog)

8. Who is jokingly called oblique? (hare)

9. What animal, if there were a competition for professions, would be recognized as the best lumberjack? (beaver)

10. Who used his tail instead of a fishing rod? (wolf)

5. PURSUIT COMPETITION

The game, of course, runs away.

Her hunter catches up.

Who will win here?

The fastest will be ahead!

Skipping Rope Competition. In turn, they run to the end of the hall, returns and passes the rope to the next,

6. COMPETITION of captains “FLOATING PRODUCTION”

Prey swims in the river,

And it needs to be in hand.

It is necessary to become dexterous, courageous,

Get it from the river.

Apples float in a clean bowl of water. You need to get the “prey” with your teeth.

7. COMPETITION “WALK THROUGH THE VINES” Contest with a rope

In the jungle, even the layman knows, there are thickets of lianas everywhere.

so gather your courage, make your way through the vines Pull the rope

8. COMPETITION “FOREST SWAMP”

Guys, imagine that we are in a tropical forest. Palm trees grow around us, bamboo rustles, monkeys jump through the trees, the voices of unknown birds are heard. And we, with a team of “predators” and “herbivores”, after long wanderings, came to the swamp. The swamp is a place where every wrong step can cost a life. Now let’s see who – predators or herbivores, will successfully overcome this ill-fated place.

(pins are arranged in a chain, children are blindfolded with scarves)

9. COMPETITION “SNAKE”

There are many snakes in the jungle, including very poisonous cobras, which can be up to five and a half meters long. Cobras are distinguished by the fact that, in case of danger, they raise the front of the body, expand the neck and spread several pairs of ribs, as a result of which a so-called hood is formed. And our last competition is called “Snake”. For this competition, teams must stand in height. Ahead – the highest. Now put your left hand between your legs. Behind him, let him take your hand with his right hand. The rest of the participants continue this chain in the same way. Each team, at my signal, begins its movement. Those who reach the finish line the fastest will win. So line up. We started.

10. Creative competition. Imagine an animal.

Summarizing. So our game is over.

We didn’t miss you today,

And they enjoyed playing.

And let the struggle be sharp,

Stronger competition.

Success was not decided by fate,

But only our knowledge.

Author: Palamarchuk Irina Dmitrievna

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Squad Activities at Camp for Children

Portal for educators and parents

Sometimes being in the camp scares the child, because he finds himself in an unfamiliar environment, away from friends and family. A school day camp is a good alternative for children and their parents who would like to try this type of holiday, but for some reason are not yet ready to stay overnight.

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Fun games

Interesting outdoor activities

Creative Activities

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Day camps give children the opportunity to engage in various activities, socialize with peers, explore the world around them and explore the natural world.

Competitions and games will help develop children’s communication skills, instill a sense of camaraderie, develop team spirit and will be a good intellectual, creative or sports workout.

To entertain children in such a way that they have fun is not an easy task for teachers, so you should carefully consider and diversify squad activities as much as possible. Engage kids in wilderness survival training, self-discovery, orienteering, dancing, horseback riding, swimming, arts and crafts, hiking, and of course, mindfulness and outdoor play.

In order for the kids to have a great time, you can invent your own fun, as well as try some of the most popular camp games that have become “classics”. Experiment by organizing all sorts of camp-wide and intra-squad events in the camp, whether it’s a creative competition or a survival course in emergency situations, the main thing is that the children should be interested and have fun.

Fun games

An interesting event for the Water Attack camp can become an active and exciting competition in hot weather for a group of four people.

Draw a start and finish line at a distance of 15-20 meters – this is the optimal distance for children aged 7 to 10 years. You can make the lines further or closer apart, depending on the age of the participants. There must be enough obstacles between the lines, such as trees, wooden barriers, and the like, for runners to hide behind. A single 3 to 5 meter hurdle is ideal for elementary school children.

Choose two participants – they will be “bombers”. One will stand three meters from the finish line, and the other – about one and a half meters from it closer to the middle and to the right. Give them some washcloths and buckets of water.

The purpose of the runners: to overcome the distance from start to finish, hiding behind obstacles, so as not to get wet under the targeted fire of the “bombers”. The “bomber” in the middle can only attack when the runner has passed the middle, and the “bomber” at the finish line can only attack in his “zone”. The player who reaches the finish line dry wins.

Pass the parcel

This activity in the camp can be used as a game to get to know and unite children. The optimal number of participants is three or more people.

Prepare a prize to share, or put a prize for everyone in a paper bag. Candies or small things like camp logo badges work well.

On the outside of the bag, write with a marker something like:

“share what’s inside with someone else after you’ve crowed like a rooster for thirty seconds. ”

Put this bag with other bags with other funny tasks written on the outside, such as “buzz the alphabet like a bee”. Make many bags with different tasks written on them and put all the bags in a big bag.

All day camp participants sit in a circle close to each other, and while the music is playing, each in turn passes the bag to his neighbor on the right. When the music is interrupted, the participant who has the bag left in his hands takes the bag out of it and reads the task aloud. Then the player stands in the center of the circle, calls his name and performs the action specified in the task. The music plays again when the participant completes the task and returns to their seat.

The game continues until everyone up to the last task has been completed. Then the winner is determined and the main prize is given.

Artist, model and clay

This is another fun camp game for elementary school kids and up that develops observation skills.

Divide the children into teams of three. Assign roles, each group should have:

• “artist”,
• “model”,
• “clay”.

The “artist” is blindfolded while the “model” poses as a funny statue. The “artist”, without seeing her, must make a statue out of the “clay” participant, very similar to the “model”, moving the arms, legs and head of the “clay”. When the “artist” finishes the work, the blindfold is removed from his eyes. The team with the most similar model receives a small prize and leaves the game. The competition continues until each group has been awarded prizes.

Alien Invasion

Summer camp group activities are the most used. “Alien Invasion” is a competitive game for a large group of children divided into several teams.

The main storyline is that all the children have been captured by the aliens and they will be released if they can drop the alien eggs on the surface of Mars without breaking them. The aliens took speech or hearing from some children and paralyzed others. Divide each team into three groups.

• One group of children cannot speak or help protect the eggs, but they can communicate their suggestions with body language.
• The other group cannot move but can express their thoughts aloud.
• The third group on each team will be blindfolded, but they can talk, move and protect the egg.

In order to play the game, each team must complete the tasks that you provide to protect the egg from being destroyed when it falls (these can be written on a piece of paper given to players who cannot speak, but can use gestures). After 30 minutes of play, all teams drop the protected eggs onto the ladder or onto the roof.

Allow time at the end for the children to discuss what they have learned, identify and reward the most cohesive and friendly team.

Interesting events in nature

“Hunt for Nature”

Search games in the camp are especially popular with children, one of them is “Hunting in nature”. Encourage children to explore wildlife and pay attention to what they see and feel in the environment. Create criteria for the items they will need to find to get the kids interested in exploring aspects of the natural world.

Include in descriptions adjectives such as beautiful, smooth, gritty, and scary, as well as:

• animal tracks,
• three kinds of leaves,
• something that can be felt but not seen,
• something with a strong smell,
• a good place to hide,
• something old,

elements of a certain color,

• shells,
• mushrooms,
• clover,
• seeds,
• other items corresponding to the wild territory that you plan to explore during the “nature hunt”.

Print out a “nature hunt” list for each team or child.

Use digital or cell phone cameras to take pictures of items instead of collecting them. Ask the children to share photos from the next day or at the end of the nature hunt.

Walk and hour in nature

Take campers on a three to four hour picnic in the park or forest for a walk and a quiet hour alone with nature.

Take a few minutes before the walk begins to discuss the importance of maintaining silence throughout the activity, explaining that the children will have an opportunity to discuss what they have seen at the end.

Choose this route to walk for about an hour to a place suitable for an hour alone with nature. Try to make your route pass through a clearing, meadow, valley, hill or lake.

When you arrive at your destination, instruct the children to find a suitable place to be alone and contemplate the natural world for an hour. After the hour has passed, get together and discuss the experience before heading back.

Don’t forget to bring water, food and a first aid kit with you on this trip.

Outdoor adventure

Spend a day teaching kids how to survive in the wild. This will help day camp participants learn useful skills in a relaxed and safe environment.

Start with first aid lessons, show how to clean a wound and apply a bandage, give basic knowledge of a first aid kit. Next, teach the children how to use a map and compass, and how to make a fire. Tell us how to set up a camp in natural conditions, how to set up a tent.

A good end to the day will be conversations or songs around the campfire.

Creative events

Public speaking stimulates children’s creativity and self-esteem. Many squad activities in the camp can be based on the performances of the children themselves.

Help an introverted child open up by starting the morning with a class in the performing arts. It can be singing, dancing, acting, and any other similar activity.

A creative competition can become a large-scale culmination of a successful season. Day camp participants will be required to perform on stage in front of parents, counselors and other children.

Participation in an art competition will help your child understand the importance of practice, planning, organization and many other skills and qualities.

T-shirt design

Add some fashion to your day camp routine. Invite all the children so that everyone can create a T-shirt that expresses their personality or favorite activity. Order as many white t-shirts as you need for all campers.

Get enough art supplies: glue, felt-tip pens, glitter, ribbons, and other decorations.

Free up the rest of the day from organized activities: let the children have time to write each other’s wishes on T-shirts. So, the T-shirt will become a memory of the time spent at the summer camp, as well as new friends.

This camp event is a great way to end your shift.

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Leisure in the children’s camp Orlyonok, the main camp activities for children’s recreation in the camp

In each shift, a lot of activities are held on various topics.

Main themes / shift events

• Festival of the Peoples of the World,
• Video Clip Competition,
• Representation of Squads,
• Minute of fame / Talented Russia,
• Dancefloor Star,
• Asphalt Drawing Competition,
• Sympathy Day,
• Fair,
• Tourist relay,
• Miss Camp,
• Adventure Night.

How the evening activities go

The evening activities at the camp alternate with movies on the big screen and everyone’s favorite discos.

• Evening performances are organized on the stage from each group, in which all interested children participate. In a five-minute production from each squad, counselors and children convey the idea to the viewer through dance, song, acting.
• For all performances, outfits are taken from the rich dressing room, where EVERYTHING can be found:
  –
  folk sundresses,
  –
  ball gowns,
  –
  animal costumes,
  – suits
  fairy tale characters
  – much more
  .
• If necessary, performances are accompanied by a pre-recorded soundtrack.
• Concerts are illuminated by theatrical spotlights and filmed on video and photos, and later posted on the official Vkontakte and Instagram groups.

Daily activities

During the day, in addition to constantly working circles, sports games are held – volleyball, football, mini football, table tennis, archery, arm wrestling, relay races and other competitions.

Quests or “errands” are organized for children – themed games with stages located throughout the camp:

• Merry Express,
• Alice in Wonderland,
• Sea battle,
• Sausage cuts,
• Land grab,
• Yard games,
• Stolen afternoon snack, etc.

Miss Camp

“Miss Camp” is one of the most
favorite activities of children and counselors in the children’s camp Orlyonok. This show,
which everyone will remember for a lifetime. Each female contestant has
a chance to get the title and crown of “Miss camp” for a whole year. Preparing for
competition is an important component of the success of the event.

Each contestant is assisted by counselors, group leaders and
a large number of friends.

Dresses are sewn, inventions
avant-garde costume, song chosen, dance support, writing
speech, a worthy gentleman is chosen. The girls are rehearsing with the choreographer
consult with a dresser, a vocal teacher. And that’s when everything
preparations in the children’s camp are completed, the queens of the evening are accompanied by loud
applause of the fans gracefully step on a specially equipped podium
with spotlights, a beautifully designed stage smiling at the invitee to the camp
professional jury … At this moment, everyone sees in a teenage girl
charming young lady, which is very important for young
lady.

More information about the beauty contest in the camp.

Day of Russian Culture

you at least once
cheerful guys and girls dressed in Russians woke up to the button accordion and children’s laughter
folk costumes dancing and playing on all kinds of musical
tools such as rattles, spoons, whistles? Not? Then you don’t know
what is it like to wake up in a great mood in the children’s camp Eaglet! BUT
if we add to all this: a fun fair with a variety of
competitions, pancakes with condensed milk and jam, a lot of goodies, jumping into
bouncy castle (trampoline), horseback riding, Russian folk
games.

Plus a wonderful costumed Russian
a fairy tale in which children and camp leaders take part. And in
the end of the festive disco! It’s hard to believe, but it’s all happening
in one day, on a Russian day, which holds a children’s camp
Eaglet!

More about the RUSSIAN day in Orlyonok

Night

it’s unfair when you are full of energy and want to walk, jump and
have fun all night long, but at the children’s camp sounds “lights out”. Which
happiness that there is a Night!

Time for romantic night, beauty
starfall, the freshness of the wind and the secrets of the pink dawn. Camp Eaglet
falls asleep, and the detachment, dressed warmly and taking everything necessary,
departs into the night. Bonfire, charcoal-baked potatoes, bread, fried
on fire, guitar songs, horseback riding, scary stories and,
finally, meeting the dawn…

Tourist
relay race

In the midst of an ordinary sunny day in a children’s
Camp Eaglet suddenly sounds an alarm. What’s this? Fire? spontaneous
disaster? War? Not! This is a tour! Everyone runs to the line, goes
squad roll call, counting the number of children and the tour relay starts! BUT
this means that the team from each detachment of the camp is put on serious
battle of the most enduring, fast and dexterous.

Spectators with
happy to support their own, and the participants try not to hit
dirt face overcoming an obstacle course: run on a log,
climb over a rope ladder, crawl in a plastunsky manner without hitting
low net, fly over a hole on a bungee, overcome a crossing,
climb over the wall, jump over the bumps. But that’s not all,
it is important for real heroes to complete responsible tasks:
tent for a while, kindle a fire, move the “wounded”, collect
machine.

On the day when Orlyonok children’s camp
a tourist relay race is held, dinner is prepared at the field army
kitchen. After the competition, children dine with appetite, specially
wood-fired. It creates a travel atmosphere. And at the end
this unusual day in the children’s camp Orlyonok there is a disco, on
which are awarded to the winners!

You can see last year’s relay in the video gallery of the camp.

Night
adventure

Mysterious events always attract
of people. Adventure Night at the Orlyonok children’s camp is a test trail in
dark time of the day with scary stories and characters for elders
children and fairy tale characters for younger children. On the way you may meet
big wild beasts, souls of pioneers, monsters, skeletons, zombies, crosses,
ghosts, headless horseman….

After walking the path, each
can get rid of his fears by “throwing” them into the cherished fire at the end
way, become bolder and more self-confident, pull out a prediction on
the near future of the organ grinder. Children’s Adventure Night ends
camp with a magical salute to commemorate
of good.

More about night adventures in the camp

Merry
express train

Fun relay race for the entire children’s camp
serves as a good start to every shift. The rules are simple, children’s group
moves to the music, holding hands from station to station,
perform tasks and answer questions. Already here the guys are becoming
more united, friendly and proactive. After passing each station, the detachment
receives points based on the results of the calculation of which it is revealed
winning squad.

Fair

Participating in
competitions and creative tasks, children earn “rubles” of children’s
Camp Eaglet. Making money is fun, but how to spend it? Here
you need a smart head and a competent financial calculation, because you can order
song, ride a horse, buy sweets, souvenirs,
toys.

Sympathy Day

This day in
the children’s camp Eaglet is waiting for everyone, both boys and girls, both small and
large. On this day, there are many options for confessing love,
express your sympathy, send congratulations. You can get and
send a valentine through the angel postal service with confessions and
congratulations. You can call the local phone on the radio broadcast
children’s camp and order a song, say hello,
congratulation.

Very nice to hear your voice in
radio broadcast throughout the camp. In addition, you can send SMS from your
mobile phone, which are displayed in real time on
screen of TV sets in each case. During all this
time, both children and adults can come to the video room and record their
congratulations. In the evening before the movie, the entire children’s camp Orlyonok
going to a film screening before which everyone is looking forward to the video
hello on the big screen
club.

Festival of the Peoples of the World

Do you think it is impossible to visit 14 countries of the world in one day? Everything is possible in Orlyonka! The children will learn about each country represented on the stage, its geographical location, symbols, customs, get acquainted with the traditional costumes of this country, its dances and songs. And it may also be that very important people of these countries will appear on the stage, for example, presidents, great artists, athletes, for example, the football player Ronaldinho – very cheerfully parodied by the guys.

On this day, we do not forget about Russian traditions either, the counselors always represent Russia, using ancient Russian customs in their performances.

Camp birthday

Unfortunately, the birthday is only once a year. This is exactly what the guys say about their birthday and about Eaglet’s birthday. This holiday is so large-scale and colorful that at the end of the day it becomes sad that the day is over. From the very morning, a festive mood is created when dressed up counselors with songs and jokes pass through the buildings and wake up all the children, congratulating them on the holiday!

Important guests and delegations from other camps arrive, and the Orlyata guys meet them and show mugs, conduct a tour of the camp. Of course, all those who have gathered are waiting for a festive concert, striking in its scope! After all, for a limited time on stage, you need to show everything that happens in our dear and beloved camp, show its history, its customs and achievements.

Guys from all groups very reverently and responsibly take part in this holiday. On this day, the camp treats everyone with different yummy things – popcorn, cotton candy and festive breakfasts, lunches and dinners. Well, in the evening, of course, magical fireworks and loud cries of “Happy Birthday, Eaglet !!!”

Golden Microphone

Talented Russia

This event is for all the talents of our camp. If you read poetry in such a way that everyone falls silent, sing songs in such a way that you want to sing along, dance in such a way that it takes your breath away, play a musical instrument in such a way that others want to go to music school, or maybe you can do all this at the same time and much more – “Talented Russia” for you!

A huge number of guys go through several qualifying rounds and as a result, getting into the finals, the best of the best come on stage! But all the guys in the detachment help to make their performance bright! Therefore, if you decide to go to Orlyonok, be sure to determine the repertoire for yourself and immediately start rehearsals!

Here we are

It’s time for the first acquaintance between the squads. After all, the camp does not yet know what names the detachments have chosen and under what mottos they will now live. It is at this event that a cheerful, creative, friendly mood is set for the whole shift. For some of the guys, this is the very first appearance on the stage of the camp, and for some, even the very first performance in their life, so there is always a festive excitement.

This event is held at the beginning of each shift and is the first joint performance of the entire squad, which undoubtedly unites the guys in a strong creative union!

Solemn line

Solemn line is held at the beginning and at the end of the shift. At the opening of the shift, the camp administration introduces the children to teachers, camp circle leaders, reports the action plan. The flag is solemnly raised to the anthem of Russia.

The shift is closed on the day of departure. All children and employees gather on the line to take stock and reward the most active, creative and athletic children. The flag of Russia is lowered, but in a few days the guys of the next shift will raise it again.

Concert
counselors

The shift is coming to an end … And everyone brings
the results of unforgettable days of rest in the children’s camp Orlyonok. Thanks
friends, camp, their counselors. And the counselors sadly say goodbye to the children,
become family to them. All your skills and talents come in handy on
concert of counselors, in order to express their emotions and feelings for
last shift in the children’s camp. Counselors read poetry, show
skits, dancing, playing musical instruments. There’s a place here
lyrics, humor, burst of energy. And finally, a farewell song … And here
wiping tears, we all understand that the change was not
in vain…

Stolen
afternoon snack

Show your directorial and
creativity older children can in the preparation
activities “Stolen afternoon tea” for the little ones. The kids come to
afternoon snack in the camp canteen, and then a bunch of pirates, stealing before their eyes
their legitimate sweets.

Children appear to help children
good fairy tale characters, whether it be Puss in Boots, Malvina, Thumbelina, Fairy
who lead them in the footsteps of the pirates, stopping for clues at
Grandmothers Ezhka, The Devil, Koshchei, Robin Hood, Humanoids, Space Aliens
and other heroes. Scenarios are always different, characters and tasks
respectively too. Emotions are overflowing, as a result, the entire children’s
the camp always remains satisfied: the younger guys found their afternoon snack, and
the elders are glad that they were not torn apart by hungry kids.

Rope course

Very
important for a good holiday in the children’s camp, is a close-knit,
a friendly team that builds its relationships on the principles of respect,
mutual aid and support. It is to develop these qualities that
“Rope course”.

As a result of overcoming difficult
stages where each person is necessary, important and valuable, begins
to form a responsible position towards each other and the team.
The exercises are structured in such a way as to involve both active and
insignificantly showing themselves members of the children’s team, as a result
that each member of the group and the group as a whole participate in achieving
set goals.

As a result, the squad becomes
cohesive, a friendly atmosphere is formed, skills are developed
mutual assistance, communication barriers are overcome, leaders are identified. Such
event children’s camp Eaglet holds every shift for teams
middle and older ages.

Video Clip Contest

You can discover the abilities of a clip maker, a profession that is very fashionable today, if you participate in the “Video Clip Contest” event. It is here that the guys will have to direct a video for any musical hit and play it right on stage.

As a result, the whole camp will witness a new creation in the field of show business. Believe me, the clips created in our camp often turn out to be brighter, more fun and more ideological than those that are shown on television.

Day of “Memory of the Fallen”

Competition of drawings on asphalt

Who else but children can make the world brighter, kinder and lighter? In our camp, even the gray asphalt paths become colorful when the asphalt drawing competition takes place.

Most often, children paint asphalt on a given topic, for example, “Let there always be sunshine”, “April Fool’s Day” and others. The guys all team come up with an idea and embody it. Walking around the camp, you understand that talented, kind and friendly children rest in Orlyonok.

New Year’s fairy tale

Each of us, whether he is a child or an adult,
waiting for New Year’s fairy tale with a happy ending. In our children’s
camp in the winter shift a fairy tale becomes a reality. small and
adults become fairy-tale characters. Bright costumes, interesting
plots, humor and mysticism – immerses everyone in a festive atmosphere and
impressions just a few hours before the New
of the year.

Our fairy tale cannot do without Santa Claus and
Snow Maiden with a magic bag of gifts for children on the morning of January 1. A lot of
trouble haunts the main characters, but … good always wins
evil. Every year in the children’s camp Eaglet a new fairy tale, new heroes,
new scenery and new childhood experiences.

Summer camp event. Children’s summer camp. Scenario of the game program for the summer camp

Scenario of the holiday for the camp “Hello, sunny summer”

Scenario for 1 day of summer for a children’s camp. An interesting and fun story for kids. Poems and many songs, fun games for schoolchildren. Actors: two presenters, children – readers. What is needed in preparation: to learn songs and poems with children, organize teams, decorate the stage.

Day of humor at the children’s camp

Scenario of the Day of Humor in the children’s camp. An interesting and fun story for kids. Poems and many songs, fun games for schoolchildren. Characters: presenter, teams of children. What you need in preparation: props – paper and cardboard, pens, headscarves, plastic bottles, hoops, cell phones, Chinese hats, cardboard thermometers.

Camp opening script

Scenario for opening a camp shift in a children’s school camp. An oath of allegiance to the camp, other interesting rituals aimed at strengthening friendship between children. Characters: two presenters, children. What is needed in preparation: children need to draw posters, emblems of their squad, come up with a motto, squad name, squad song.

Scenario of the Dating Day in the camp

An event for the first day at the camp, when the children are not yet familiar with each other, the teachers and the laws of the camp. Dating games for schoolchildren to get to know each other in a playful way. Characters: educators, children. What is needed in preparation: educators must prepare props for games, conduct briefings for children.

Scenario for the summer recreation camp “Mysteries of Summer”

Scenario of an event in a health-improving school camp for children from 7 to 10 years old, which takes place in an interesting form of travel through imaginary stations. Actors: presenters for each station, teams. What is needed in preparation: preparation and execution of assignments; venues; formation of teams, jury; card making.

Scenario of the event dedicated to June 1 – Children’s Day in the children’s camp. On this day, children are told about the holiday. Collective games for children in the camp. Characters: presenter, cat Basilio and Fox Alice. What is needed in preparation: props for games, prizes, decoration of the room, costumes of fairy-tale characters.

Scenario for children’s day in the camp “Holiday of childhood”

Scenario of a game performance dedicated to the International Children’s Day. It is desirable to hold this event on the street, where book exhibitions and playgrounds are equipped. Characters: presenter, clowns, artist, Uncle Styopa, Fiona, Fiona’s assistants 2-3 girls, robot – Palamarchuk. What is needed in preparation: props for games, costumes of heroes, equipment of the room.

Scenario for kindergarten or school camp on the theme of the holiday – Children’s Day. Held on the street. Children led by funny presenters play games, guess riddles. Characters: Vraka-Zabiyaka, Clown Smeshinkin (performed by adults). What is needed in preparation: costumes of heroes – hosts, props for games.

Scenario for the camp of the summer music and sports festival “Long live the children of the whole planet”

Scenario for an outdoor sports event for a children’s camp. The holiday is held on the street, the children are divided into teams and participate in outdoor games. Characters: presenter, grandmother, two girls. What you need in preparation: a site beautifully decorated with balloons, ribbons, flags, props for games.

Scenario for the summer camp “Sun Festival”

The scenario of the holiday of the Sun for the children’s camp is ideal to unite and make friends with children. Games, riddles, interesting facts from the Sun. Actors: leader. What is needed in preparation: the design of the site with many “suns”, the “Sunny Bunny” costume, music, a poster with quiz questions about the sun.

Scenario of the event for the summer camp “Day of Miracles”

Scenario of a fun and interesting holiday for a children’s camp. According to scenario 2, teams of children must find a magic tree using a map fragment. Characters: presenter, Baba Yagi, Basilio the cat, Alice’s fox. What is needed in preparation: buy bananas according to the number of children participating and hang them on a tree, prepare maps and tasks for teams, costumes of heroes.

Scenario “Day of liars” in the summer camp

Scenario for a very fun holiday at the school summer camp “Day of Liars”. The holiday develops the imagination and creativity of children. Fun games and contests. Actors: two leading, two liars. What is needed in preparation: the day before, each squad must compose an implausible funny story about life in the camp for the competition. You will also need props for competitions, fun music.

Scenario of the competition program for the summer camp “The Best”

The Scenario of the competition program “The most – the most” is ideal for entertaining children at the school summer camp. Competitions should evaluate both intellectual and sporting achievements of children, erudition, ingenuity. Actors: two presenters, jury. What you need in preparation: awards for the winners, props for competitions, fun music.

Scenario of the holiday “Creativity Day” in the summer camp

Scenario of a very interesting holiday for the summer camp of schoolchildren. Creative competitions in the nominations “Dancers”, “Fashion Designers”, “Writers”, “Artists”, “Poets” should help each child to show his talent. Actors: leading. What is needed in preparation: task sheets for each squad, props for creative competitions, awards for winners, music for a dance competition.

Game scenario for the summer camp “Polundra”

Scenario of a fun outdoor game for a summer school camp. The essence of the game is for teams to go through competitions and as a result reach a place where a large box of sweets is hidden for the winners. Actors: leading. What is needed in preparation: tasks for teams, props for competitions, sweets, music. The game can be played both outdoors and indoors.

Scenario of a patriotic holiday for the Day of Russia for a summer school camp. Beautiful poems and songs about Russia. It is good if the children read their own poems about the Motherland. Characters: presenters, readers of poems. What is needed in preparation: learn songs and poems, decorate the hall with flags and balloons in the color of the Russian flag, set tables and chairs.

Closing scenario at the summer camp

Scenario for closing the shift at the summer camp “Welcome from Opposites!”. A fun holiday perfect for children saying goodbye to camp. Characters: 2 buffoons, presenter, Padishah, translator, gardener, nurse. What is needed in preparation: compose poems, ditties or songs about each counselor, educator, etc., hand out words in advance, because. they are quite complex.

Scenario of a disco with competitions in a school camp

Script for a fun disco at a summer school camp. Dance and other competitions at the disco will make it more interesting for the participants. Characters: disco host, fishermen. What is needed for preparation: costumes of fishermen, props for competitions, awards for winners, musical equipment.

Scenario of the dating holiday at the opening of the school camp

This scenario of a dating holiday is proposed to be held in the “light” format at the opening of the school camp. The purpose of the holiday is to let the children get to know each other, to create an atmosphere of trust in the camp. Actors: presenter, counselors. What is needed in preparation: cardboard stars with questions for children, come up with chants.

Scenario of the Olympic Games in the summer camp “Faster, Higher, Stronger”

Scenario for a sports event for a school summer camp that can be held like the Olympic Games. Sports competitions, competitions, interesting facts about the Olympics. Characters: leading, Prometheus, Zeus. What you need in preparation: props and sports equipment for sports, awards for winners, music.

Scenario for the opening of a school camp shift for children aged 7-10

This scenario for the opening of a shift at a school camp is suitable for younger students – children 7 – 10 years old. The purpose of the holiday is to give children the opportunity to get to know each other, to express themselves. Games, riddles for children. Actors: leader. What you need in preparation: props for competitions and games.

Scenario for the opening of the camp shift with the participation of life-size puppets

This scenario of opening a shift at a summer camp is quite time-consuming, but very bright and interesting. Games, competitions, riddles for children, presentation of counselors, a story about the camp. Characters: 2 leading, life-size puppets: Baba – Yaga, Cat, Hare, Tiger. Hut. What you need in preparation: Costumes of life-size puppets, musical records, refreshments, T-shirts for counselors.

Scenario of the concert of counselors at the opening of the shift in the camp

The concert of counselors will be a good event at the opening of the shift in the summer camp. Children will be able to learn more about their counselors and make friends with them. You need to finish the concert with an evening gathering of the detachment. Characters: counselors, children. What is needed in preparation: costumes for counselors, stars for presentation to children.

Scenario of the solemn line for the opening of the shift in the camp

Usually the opening of the camp begins with a solemn line. We offer a script for the line with the removal of the flag of Russia and the welcoming words of the camp leadership to the children. Characters: counselors, educators, head of the camp, children. What you need in preparation: the flag of Russia, musical equipment, microphones.

Scenario of a game entertainment program for Children’s Day

Game entertainment program dedicated to the International Children’s Day is designed for older preschoolers – children aged 5 – 6 years. Games and competitions for children are desirable to be held on the street. Characters: 2 presenters, children – readers, Vredina (adult). What is needed in preparation: props for games, Vredina’s costume, prizes for winners of competitions, music.

Children are divided into teams. The players of one team show a small scene without words, in which some well-known proverb is encrypted, and the players of the second team try to guess this proverb. The game runs on time. If the team could not give the correct answer in 5 minutes, then the right to “show the proverb” passes to the other team.

I know more

Players are divided into teams. The facilitator calls a certain topic. For example, “sports”, “flowers”, “bakery”, “female names” or another. And the teams try to remember and write down as many words as possible related to the specified topic for five minutes. The team with the most matching words wins.

Trainers and predators

Players are divided into two teams – trainers and predators. A circle is drawn in the center of the playground. “Tamers” hand out stickers. The “tamer” must catch up with the “predator” and be able to stick a sticker on it, after that the “predator” is considered caught and is taken to the circle. The trainer team is trying to catch and bring all the players from the predator team into the circle.

Air pointer

The players are divided into teams. Each team is given balloons and tape. The participants of the game need to inflate as many balloons as possible and use adhesive tape to connect them into a long chain-pointer. The team with the longest air pointer wins.

Let’s tell fortunes by the hand

A curtain or curtain is pulled in the room, in which there is a small hole for the hand. One team stands on one side of the curtain, and another team on the back. The players of one team take turns sticking their hand into the hole, and the players of the other try to guess who exactly the hand belongs to. The one with the most correct answers wins.

Slovonos

A player from one of the teams is invited – “slovonos”. He is voiced by a topic, for example, “space”, “shop”, “school”, “sea”, etc. On this topic, he names the words that come to his mind. These words are written down. And then the rest of the team members are invited, the topic is announced to them, and they try to guess the written words. The winner is the team that guessed the most words called “slovonos”.

Inseparable bond

Players are divided into pairs. One of the pair names the word, and the other comes up with an association to it. For example, “elephant – trunk”, “bread – butter”, “key – lock”. Then all players are blindfolded and parted in different directions. After that, shouting out only one word, exactly the one that their partner called, they try to find each other and join hands.

Native American name

Each player writes any adjective on one piece of paper and any noun on the other. All adjectives go into one box and nouns into another. The contents of the boxes are then shuffled and each player goes to the boxes and draws one noun and one adjective. The combination of these words becomes his name for the whole day. Phrases can be very unexpected and funny. For example, “blue eye”, “jolly cucumber”, etc.

Irina Volkova

Competitive and fun game for the summer camp “Merry Mosaic”

Competitive and fun game for the summer camp

« Cheerful Mosaic
»
!

Master
:

Good afternoon girls!

Good afternoon, boys!

Good afternoon dear teachers.

We are glad to welcome you to contest
– entertainment game « Cheerful Mosaic
»
!

But, like any game, we have our own rules.

So, what can and cannot be done?

I will name these rules and you will show them. Deal?

During the whole game you can
:

stomp and clap! (hall shows)

scream and hoot!

dance and sing!

greet each other with applause!

boys greet girls with a whistle!

girls – squeal!

you can blow kisses to each other!

wave your hands!

And just greet each other!

You have understood the rules, and now you need to decide on the teams, so I invite from each squad 5 (3)
girls and 4 (3)
boys.

Finally, it’s time for you to introduce our esteemed jury
:

1 contest
. A modern girl has sufficient knowledge of men’s and women’s perfumes, hygiene items, decorative cosmetics. So the first competition
for girls is called Smell the Object
. From each unit 3 (2)
girls

Participants need to identify the proposed object by smell with their eyes closed
:

1. Toothpaste.

2. Laundry soap.

3. Women’s cream.

5. Lipstick.

6. Women’s eau de toilette
.

7. Men’s eau de toilette
.

8. Shampoo.

9. Nail polish.

10. Hairspray.

11. Washing powder.

12. Shoe cream.

13. Mascara.

At the end of the competition, the results are summed up
.

Leader. Well, the girls coped with this task, but will the boys cope? Our next contest is called
“Tell me what it is?”

(For example

: milk – drink; crucian – fish)

1. Carp (fish)
. 11. Rooster (bird)
.

2. Persimmon (fruit)
. 12. Hazelnut (walnut)
.

3. Beans (vegetables)
. 13. Cucumber (vegetable)
.

4. Cherry (berry)
. 14. Kiwi (berry)
.

5. Rice (groats)
. 15. Morel (mushroom)
.

6. Capelin (fish)
. 16. Coconut (walnut)
.

7. Millet (groats)
. 17. Koumiss (drink)
.

8. Tea (beverage)
. 18. Turnip (vegetable)
.

10. Tomato (vegetable)
. 20. Kissel (drink)
.

Leader. Next competition for counselors
, it is called

“Ball”
– at my signal, the counselor inflates a balloon of a certain size (according to the model, ties it, puts it on a chair, sits on it abruptly so that it bursts (Whoever bursts the balloon first wins)
.

Leader. The times are difficult now, the crisis is in full swing, so you can’t do without a cow in the village and our next contest is called
“My farmstead or how much I love my cow!”
Let’s see how our members can milk a cow. While is playing music you need
“to milk”
as much milk as possible. The participant who has the largest “milk milk” wins
!

(3 girls participate in this contest
: one is holding a rubber glove, the other is holding a bucket, the third is milking).

Leader. And we continue our program and the next contest is called
Clip-Gag
. You guys are modern and you definitely heard how they read rap (teams are given lyrics to children’s songs)
.

So, dear participants, you have to perform the famous children’s songs
: “A Christmas tree was born in the forest”
, “From a smile a gloomy day is brighter”
, Tired toys are sleeping
and sing them like real rappers.

While you remember the lyrics, decide who will rap and rehearse to quiet rap music, we will play with the fans
:

I have one game called
“He – she”
.

He is an elephant – she is . .. an elephant.

He is a moose – she is … a moose.

He is a cat – she is…

Well, of course, she is a cat!

Well, you made a mistake.

Let’s play again,

I want to beat you!

He is a walrus – she is … a walrus,

He is a hare – she is … a hare,

He is a bull – she is …

Does everyone know this word?

Yes! Yes! She is a cow!

Watching “Clip-gag”

Leader. Machine assembly
. Boys, imagine that this is a machine gun (Ved. points to a meat grinder, so he shoots (Ved. turns the handle of the meat grinder, it consists of … (Ved. disassembles the meat grinder into parts, your task is to assemble the machine again for speed. (1 boy per squad)
.

Leader. Our next contest
for girls is called General Cleaning

The cow has been milked, now it’s time to put things in order in the house.

And to make you happier, we will help you with music. A familiar melody sounds, you need to dance what is written on the card, and the audience must guess.

1 mop or vacuum the floor (Jackson)

2 dust (Letka-enka)

3 washing dishes (Lambada)

4 cooking dinner. (Macarena)

5 ironing (Tango)

6 hand wash (Twist)

Leader. While the jury is conferring, summing up, the fans will name 11 adjectives of any subject for me

Our … guys!

Today, on this … day of summer, we give you … a promise
:

continue to treat you daily with … chocolates and … sweets;

show you … attention and … care;

give you … compliments;

not to give you … grief;

forever be yours. friends.

Your…fans.

Leader. The floor is given to the jury.

(Results are announced, teams are awarded)

Leader. Thanks for playing! See you soon!

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An entertainment program for the children of the school camp.

“GAMESHOW”

1 Today is your day guys!

Grow and make us happy

All children of the vast Earth

hurry to each other,

Wishing you health, love!

And we wish you guys –

Grow and make us happy,

May your wishes come true

And the world will be good for you!

We adults promise you,

Help, protect in everything,

And hoping in our hearts we dream

Raising you happy!

So. We begin the holiday of childhood,

A lot of enthusiasm, fun awaits us ….

Who came to us for the holiday?

And we will find out now.

1 squad state your name and motto.

dear children

Both girls and boys

All without exception

Welcome to the fun!

Let’s start dancing!

Let’s sing songs!

Let’s start the holiday!

Polka dance

We have fun today, we are happy!

Happy holiday, children, we congratulate you!

Let it ring, ring everywhere

Our cheerful, sonorous laughter!

We have a bunch of songs in store,

Have fun without interference!

Strawberries and flowers

The forest and the meadow will meet us

Our songs will be with us

The birds will sing around

The song “Childhood” (Shatunova)

They sang provocatively, they sang from the heart.

I hear someone is in a hurry to visit, in a hurry.

This is probably the 2nd squad “Pirates”

He wants to show his talents

I want the world to have a lot of light,

I want the world to have a lot of summer,

And green dew on the grass.

I want less crying in the world,

And more laughter, joy, good luck,

Children’s smiles, like blossoms, unsteady

Flowers comparable to a child’s smile.

Let there be no insults and quarrels in the camp “Solnyshko”

.

You smile and worries

Will go away like spring water!

Let peace and happiness be near –

Always, always, always, always….

Everyone sings a song

Childhood is me and you.

Klepa
. Hi guys! Boys and girls!
Toffee
. We welcome you from the bottom of our hearts, dear children!
Klepa
. Comrades adults, and hello to you!
And I have no more greetings.
However, why not.
Once again I say to everyone, everyone, everyone: “Hi!”

Toffee
. And let’s get acquainted!

Klepa
. Let’s! I am Klepa! And this funny girl is Iriska!

Master
. Hey! Friends! Are you already here? I hope you haven’t gotten around to it yet?

Together
. Oh, Aunt Luda!

Klepa
. No, Aunt Lyudochka, we’re just saying hello!

Master
. Well, well done! Did you congratulate the guys on the holiday?

Toffee
. What holiday?

Master
. What, you don’t know? Guys, tell me Klepa and Iriska

What holiday is today? (answer)

Klepa
. Wow! Children Protection Day! Where is my sword? Where? I went to protect the children!

Leading
. Klepa! Klepochka! Stop! Let’s give the kids a holiday!

Together
. Holiday

! Holiday! But as?

Master
. We will give them a lot of games, contests and fun!

Together
. Hooray! We want to play too!

Master
. Well then, go and recruit teams of ten people!

Assemble teams.

presenter
. And since today is a holiday, we invite everyone to participate in our contests! Who among you loves to draw and color? For you, young artists, we announce a cool contest! Who wants to win a coloring prize? All come to the tent and try yourself as artists! (these words need to be spoken from time to time).

So, the teams are assembled! And first of all, we somehow need to name our teams! You are given one minute to come up with names for the team.

Team names.

Master
. And I ask you to loudly introduce your teams in chorus!

Leader.
And now I want to ask you a question. What is the name of the time when I run, you run, he runs, she runs, they run? (answer)

That’s right, recess!

Game Break.

Leader. Well, now we begin our real test. Let’s line up one after the other, clasp hands and on one leg we all jump together to this line and back. Let’s see which team is the fastest.

Overtaking game.

Guys, do you like sports? What sports do you know? And what are you doing yourself? And I know another sport, it is called ball jumping! Do you know this sport? This is a very simple and fun sport. You just need to hold the ball with your feet and jump to the finish line, then jump back and pass the ball to another participant. And so on. So you will show not only team speed, but also team jumping ability!

Ball jumper game.

You are real athletes! I think you’ll do just as well with your next sports game. Do you love hockey? Yes, now everyone loves hockey and even girls play it! You know that hockey happens with a ball and a puck. And we have hockey with a mop! You again line up one after another, with this mop you must push the ball to the finish line and back. And pass the mop to another participant.

Mop hockey game.

And the next competition, which will show not only your quickness, agility, but also agility! Now the hoops are at the same distance from the teams. Everyone needs to take turns running to the hoop, climb through it and run to the end of the team, the next participant does the same. And so on.

Climb the hoop game.

And at the end of our relay race, a very difficult test awaits us – there is a river in front of you, and you need to get over it. For this we have a ferry – (a hoop that lies at a distance from the teams). The first participant runs to him, takes and puts on himself, then runs to the team, takes one participant with this hoop, they run to the finish line, return, take the next participant and so on.

Crossing game.

Our relay race is over! In the meantime, we calculate the points and determine the winners, you can dance a little with our clowns!

Key:
Attention! Attention! Attention! Says and shows “Storm!” Microphones and cameras are installed in this hall, where exactly today, now, this very minute, a ship – a ship show will begin. But it’s interesting: will everyone be able to decipher the abbreviation of the name of the evening? Well, why do you shrug your shoulders and look uncertainly at these letters? Let’s combine our efforts and decipher the mysterious words! So let’s get started! Jokes and jokes, pranks and pranks!

And if, getting together for our tonight, and I, and you, and all of us together took with us a good mood and friendly, cheerful, mischievous laughter, smoothly turning into deafening and long-lasting laughter, then we are all very lucky !

So, the evening of jokes and tricks, pranks and mischief is declared open! Hooray! Hooray! Hooray!

F-ma:
Fanfare sounds. The leader comes out.

Key:
Good afternoon, dear participants! It is with great pleasure that I want to invite teams that are ready to joke, play, have fun, dance and make fun today.

So, welcome the 1st team “Pinocchio” with applause

We welcome the 2nd team “Winnie the Pooh”

We greeted each other.

And finally, the time has come to start our game called “Ship-Ship-Show. So, listen, look, and shake your mustache.

And now I want to give each team a card with a well-known proverb.

The whole team must convey the content and meaning of this proverb without words, using gestures and pantomime. The team is given exactly 1 minute to think. Get ready, let’s get started!

A woman with a cart is easier for a mare.

One with a bipod – seven with a spoon.

Where the needle goes, the thread goes.

Seven do not wait for one.

Hippodrome

Purpose: unloading, release of energy, “shout”.

Time: 5 min.

Number of participants: 10 or more.

Venue: any.

Participants either stand or sit in a circle.

Moderator: “Show me your hands and your knees. Does everyone have two knees? Then go ahead! We will now participate in the races at the hippodrome. Repeat after me. ”

Competitors follow the leader. “The horses went to the start (clap-clap-clap randomly on the knees). We stopped at the start. They wrinkled (clap softly). To the start, attention, march! The race has begun (clap quickly on the knees). Barriers (raise hands, as if hovering over barrier) Stone road (pounding on the chest with fists) Through the swamp (pulling our cheeks) Sand (rubbing palm on palm)

Finish line (very fast). Hooray!”

And that’s why we offer to take part in the show – program. “Summer is red, sing louder”
– But first, we need to get to know each other. My name is —–, and what is your name, we will now find out.

1. Say your name in unison.

– I hear. Marina, Seryozha, Lena and many other guys have gathered in our hall today, with whom you can have a good rest and play. And we will start today with a wonderful game “That’s it.”

2. All answers must be shown. Game like this.

-How are you? “Like this!” (show with hands), etc.
-How are you going?
– How do you run?
-How do you take it?
– How do you give?
– How do you threaten?
– How are you naughty?
The game is played 3 times and faster each time.

6.
Shoe a friend game.


The players are divided into two teams. Teams choose drivers who move away from the teams and do not peep until the team members take off one shoe and throw it into one pile. Then, at the command of the leader, they begin to shoe their friends – who is faster.

7.
Game


Baba Yaga.


Teams continue to compete with each other. For this, the participants are given buckets, one per team, than mortars, and one broom. One leg must be inserted into the bucket and taken by the handle, and brooms are taken in the second – they “flew” to the finish line and back. Participants change – who is faster.

8. Grasshopper Relay

2 teams compete in jumping with the ball between the knees.

And now the teams have to dress one of their slimmer members

nickname.
The team that puts on this person as many clothes as possible within 1 minute wins. You can use the clothes of the spectators sitting in the auditorium if, of course, they do not mind. But keep in mind that caps, bracelets, watches, rings, earrings and other jewelry do not count. So, teams, get ready, let’s get started!

Each team receives a card with the name of the statue on it.

One, the most sculpted member from each team, must complete the task. Then two stage workers will approach him and take him backstage. The statue must be in the image until the very last moment. So, get ready, let’s get started!

Girl with an oar.

Border guard on patrol.

Yes/No Game

Ved. Can carp get into the ocean?

All. No. (this is a river fish)

Ved. Can the tail freeze the nose?

All. No (it winters in the south)

Ved. Can a wasp fly to heaven?

Lead. Can a badger climb a bough for cones?

All. No (badger does not climb trees)

Ved. Can a sandpiper bite its own tongue?

All. No. (birds have no teeth)

Ved. Can a seal lie on its side all day?

Lead. Can a titmouse live on a roof?

Lead. Can dogs tear off all crayfish’s tanks?

All. No. (crayfish live at the bottom of reservoirs)

Lead. Can a bear get fat in winter?

All. No. (bear sleeps in winter)

Dance of little ducklings.

And now I invite two participants to the stage, the most vociferous, who

are able to imitate the voices of animals and birds. So, the competition begins – the dialogue of onomatopoeia and the conversation of animals. Please get task cards.

(song-game-competition “Singing animals”), the players are invited to imagine themselves as animals that love to sing, but do not know how to speak like a human. The participants in the game must sing: meow, bark, grunt0 the song “A grasshopper was sitting in the grass.”

1. Dog – cat

And now a dance marathon is being announced. I invite both

mandy. The team becomes in a circle. You are given 6 balls. All team members must dance to music of different styles and directions. And at the same time, you must juggle the balls so that not a single ball falls to the floor. And so, we started!

One participant is invited to the stage, who must step over

with closed eyes this rope. So, let’s begin!

The game “Waters” – which team will drink the juice faster.

Cheerful music, dancing.

Colorful game.

Good evening, FOREST GLADE! Hello girls and boys! Do you know the name of our competition? That’s right, “Colorful game”. Why do you think our contest is called that? …. Paints in the usual sense are colored energy that makes the world around us bright, colorful, multi-colored and light. Each detachment was given homework – to prepare a song about any color, paints at will.
So, I wonder what the …… detachment prepared for us?

1. Competition “Colored song”

Units take turns singing songs.

2. Competition “Merry Clown”

To participate in this competition, we invite 1 participant from each team. You have balloons and felt-tip pens on your chairs. Your goal is to draw a funny clown with a felt-tip pen on a balloon. Originality and speed are taken into account.

3. Draw a cat competition

Dear teams, you need to draw a cat. Each of the team members draws one detail, i.e. each participant comes to the chair in turn and draws a certain detail.

4. Competition “Camp Emblem”

Squads, you have a sheet of paper and pencils on your tables. Your task is to come up with and draw the emblem of our camp. The quality and speed of the task is taken into account.

5. Amazing Smile Competition

1 participant from each team will be invited to draw a smiling man. But the participants will not draw with brushes, but will dip their noses into paints. The originality and speed of the task is taken into account.

6. Competition “Drawing for a letter”

Teams are given the task of drawing objects with the letters “A”, “B”, “C”, “K”, “L”, “M”, “N”, “P” , “R”. For each item drawn – 1 point.

7. Competition “Confusion”

Oh, what a disaster!
An evil treacherous robber who loves only black has come, and in order for the whole world to become so gloomy and boring, he mixed up all the letters in the words denoting colors so that no one would recognize them. Let’s decipher this abra-kadabra and help the Colories free themselves.

1st team – Loaisyvat – light green
2nd team – Vineyryse – lilac
3rd team – Zheyrynoav – orange
4th team – Doyryovb – burgundy
5th team – Nayloimiv – crimson
6th team – Voylyil – lilac
7th team – Rechyvokiyn
8th team – Toyfivoyel – purple

8. Competition “Rainbow”

What a miracle – beauty!
Painted gates appeared on the way,
Neither enter nor enter them!
Someone built a colorful gate in a meadow,
And it’s not easy to go through them, those gates are high!
The master did his best, he took paints for the gate,
Not one, not two, not three, look at seven!
What is the name of this gate, help me find it.

You are invited to carefully look at the sheet and from the 6 offered rainbows choose one where the colors of the rainbow are located correctly. The answer is to tell the jury.

9. “Drawing all together”

And now all the members within their team are drawing a collective drawing about what we are about to tell you.
Sea, but land on the sea,
And on land, a palm tree,
And a cat sits on a palm tree and sees –
Sea, and land on the sea ….

Summing up

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“Over the seas, over the waves… ”

We invite you guys to make an exciting journey along the rivers and seas. You ask why we chose the marine theme? Therefore, the sea is a symbol of light, space and freedom. How many artists, poets, composers have dedicated their works to the seas and rivers! And how many interesting films were shot by directors! I’ll tell you guys, I’m talking about the ocean to you now.

The other day the little neighbor asked
At the trickle of the tap:
Where are you from? Water in response:
From afar, from the ocean.
Then the kid walked in the forest,
The clearing sparkled with dew.
Where are you from? Rosu asked.
– Believe me, and I’m from the ocean!
Are you fizzing soda?
And from the bubbling glass came a whisper:
– Know, baby, and I came from the ocean.
A gray fog fell on the field,
The kid asked the fog:
Where are you from? Who are you?
– And I, my friend, from the ocean.
Amazing, isn’t it?
In soup, in tea, in every drop,
In a ringing piece of ice, and in a tear,
And in a raindrop, and in a dewdrop
We will always respond
Ocean water.

1. Guess

Junior detachments:
If he lies at the bottom,
No legs, but moves; then the ship will not run.
Has feathers, but does not fly; (anchor)
Eyes are there, but not blinking.
(fish)
He walks along the sea, he walks,
Water is all around, And he will reach the shore –
But the problem is with drinking. This is where it will disappear.
(sea) (wave)

I am both cloud and fog,
And stream and ocean.
And I fly and run,
And I can be made of glass.
(water)
Senior squads (quiz)

1. What is the address of the pirates? (sea)
2. Pirates’ favorite currency (gold)
3. What was the name of the captain who circumnavigated the world on the yacht “Trouble”?
(Vrungel)
4. Where do pirates keep their treasures? (chest)
5. What was the name of the teenager on the ship who was studying seamanship? (cabin boy)
6. High pole for a sail on a ship (mast)
7. Strong storm at sea (storm)
8. Flat as a plate, lives at the bottom of the sea (flounder)
9. Favorite drink of pirates (rum)
10. The most terrible fish (shark)
11. Crew of the ship, plane , tank (crew)
12. What can run but cannot walk? (river, stream)
13. What is the deepest lake on earth? (Baikal)
14. Pet Dense algae at the bottom of a river or pond (mud)
15. Who is the author of “The Tale of the Fisherman and the Fish” (A.S. Pushkin)

2. Maritime professions

Write as many maritime occupations as you can on a piece of paper.

3. Infuse

Syringe from a full glass into empty water without spilling it on the stool.

4. Mermaid Dance

To the music, one participant from each team dances the Mermaid dance – who is better.

5. Anglers

What an exciting business – fishing! But our competition will not depend on the bite. For fishing, you will need a “reservoir” with fish – a bucket of water with matches and a “fishing rod” – a spoon. The task of each participant is to run to the “reservoir”, catch one fish with a “fishing rod” without helping himself with the other hand, then put it in the “tank” – a plate, run to the team and pass the baton to the next one. Happy fishing!

6. Trickster

Signs with inscriptions are attached to the backs of opponents. Participants should not see these inscriptions. The task of the participants is to try to read what is written on the back of the opponent, who is trying to hide his inscription on the back, dodging. The one who reads this inscription the fastest wins.

Storm of the seas
Sea wolf
Scarlet sails
Uninhabited island
Light breeze

7. Ameliorator

One of the tasks of this profession is draining swamps. Ameliorators use complex equipment for this. But we won’t need it. There are plates of water on the chairs – that’s our swamp. We have to dry it. On a signal, the participant runs to the chair and blows with all his might on the plate to blow out as much water as possible. Then he passes the baton to the next one.

8. Homework – song

Teams perform a song on a theme related to water – sea, river, etc.

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Ship – ship – show (teams of 6 people)

1 Lead: Attention! Attention! Attention! Says and shows “Forest glade!” Microphones are installed in this hall, where exactly today, now, this very minute, the ship – ship – show will begin. But it’s interesting: will everyone be able to decipher the abbreviation of the name of the evening? Well, why do you shrug your shoulders and look uncertainly at these letters? Let’s combine our efforts and decipher the mysterious words! So let’s get started!
Jokes and jokes, pranks and pranks!
And if, gathering for our tonight, and I, and you, and all of us together took with us a good mood and friendly, cheerful, mischievous laughter, smoothly turning into a deafening and long-lasting laughter, then we are all very lucky!
So, the evening of jokes and jokes, pranks and mischief is declared open! Hooray! Hooray! Hooray!
2 Vedas. : Good evening, dear participants, fans and respected jury! It is with great pleasure that I want to present teams that are ready to joke, play, have fun, dance and make fun today.
So, applaud the team of _____ squad.
We salute the team of _____ Detachment
The audience applauds the team of _____ Detachment.
Don’t forget to applaud the team of _____ squad.
And, finally, the thunder of applause and applause breaks the team of ______ detachment.
And now, finally, the time has come to introduce our respected jury, which can and loves to have fun, play pranks, fool around and even judge all of us. Blimey! Here is the class! So, listen, look, and shake your mustache.
The jury included: Veterans d.l. “LESNAYA POLYANA”, people who gave him their best years of life, who actively and fruitfully participated and continue to participate in the ship-ship movement, who have the richest experience in judging ship-ships.
So, I think, a thunder of applause will burst out and these walls, which have seen more than that, will shudder.

Jury presentation.

Lead. So, I announce
1 Competition “Ah, potatoes!”.
One participant from each team is invited. We tie a potato suspended on a rope to the participant’s belt, the distance from the potato to the floor is 20 cm. Your task, while swinging the potato, is to move the matchbox to the edge of the stage.

2 Competition “Pantomime”
Lead. And now I want to give each team a card with a well-known proverb. The whole team must convey the content and meaning of this proverb without words, using gestures and pantomime. The team is given exactly 1 minute to think. Get ready, let’s get started!
1. A woman with a cart is easier for a mare.
2. One with a bipod – seven with a spoon.
3. Where the needle goes, the thread goes there.
4. Seven do not wait for one.
5. Water does not flow under a lying stone.
6. If you like to ride, love to carry sleds.
7. A word is not a sparrow; if it flies out, you won’t catch it.
8. Measure seven times, cut once.
9. The hut is not red with corners, but with pies.
10. Work is not a wolf, it will not run away into the forest.

3 Competition “The most sensitive”
Lead. I invite one of the most sensitive members from the team. Some sweets were placed on the chair. Your task is to determine with your booty how many sweets are on the chair. And then eat them. So pay attention, let’s get started!
We thank the most sensitive and wish to always be the same great mathematicians!

4 Competition “Dance”

For junior teams:

Invent a dance with a mop to the melody “Lezginka”

For senior teams:

Invent a dance with a chair to the melody “Waltz”

5 .: I’m in a hurry to announce the start of the next 5th contest “Statue”. Each team receives a card with the name of the statue written on it. One, the most sculpted member from each team, must complete the task. Then two stage workers will approach him and take him backstage. The statue must be in the image until the very last moment. So, get ready, let’s get started!
1. A girl with an oar. 6. Monkey in a cage.
2. Border guard on patrol. 7. Ballerina in flight.
3. Conquerors of the summit. 8. Patient at the dentist
4. Javelin thrower 9. Goalkeeper catching the ball.
5. Statue of a lover. 10. A fisherman pulling a catfish.
Great, now stagehands, take the statues away. And your task, dear “statues”, is to preserve the original image of the statue.

6 Animal Dialogue Competition
Lead. And now I invite two participants to the stage, the most vociferous, who can imitate the voices of animals and birds. So, the competition begins – the dialogue of onomatopoeia and the conversation of animals. Please get task cards.
1. Hen – rooster. 6. Donkey – turkey
2. Dog – cat 7. Bumblebee – frog
3. Pig – cow 8. Sheep – horse
4. Crow – monkey 9. Lion – cuckoo
5. Duck – goat. 10. Sparrow – snake
Game for spectators “Hypnosis”
Dear friends, I invite 5-6 spectators who want to undergo hypnosis and one assistant to this wonderful stage.
Imagine, friends, that you are walking slowly through a fabulous and amazing garden, the sun is shining brightly over your head. And suddenly a wonderful flower blooms in front of you. Rose buds, carved leaves. From its blinding beauty, you close your eyes and drop to one knee in admiration, pressing your hands to your heart. The flower emits a delightful fragrance. You feel?
Stretch your nose towards the flower. You wanted to pick it up to give it to your loved one. But be careful, the stem is prickly. So forward relaxed right hand. You feel hot. Are you thirsty. And on the petal of the flower, a large drop of dew froze. You wanted to lick it. Stick out your tongue, freeze. They opened their eyes.
Comrade foreman, a group of guard dogs for the protection of the state border of the PMR is ready.

7th competition “Mannequins”
And now I invite the most artistic guys to the stage, one participant from the team. Our competition is called – mannequins. Plastic improvisation in a given image until the “stop” command, that is, I read the text, and you have to walk in a circle, depicting what I will tell. So, get ready, let’s get started!
1. Male, former champion of the tram fleet in lifting weights. The height is below average, the legs are short (no longer than half a meter), the chest is sunken, the belly is watermelon-like, the right shoulder is 30 cm lower than the left. Periodically blows his nose, very proud.
2. Woman, height 180 cm, reduced fatness, the right leg is shorter than the left, the spine is curved in three places, the tongue does not fit in the mouth. One eyebrow is higher than the other, often crying, crying easily turns into laughter.
3. A very tall man, a giant, the spine is bent by a question mark, the right leg is dragged along, the lower jaw is far forward. Pronounced grin, lop-eared, often sniffs when walking, shy.
4. An old woman, close to her eyelid in age, goes in for race walking, her head and legs are shaking, she is blind, but her back is straight, her gait is jumping, suspicious, she often looks around, she suffers from an old smoker’s cough.
5. A child between 2 and 3 years of age, with a large head and thin neck. He tries to reach his nose with his tongue, often falls into puddles, cheerful laughter, even too much, suffers from a chronic runny nose.

8 Shoe the Team competition
All participants take off their shoes and put them in a pile and mix. One of the participants must put on their team. So, get ready, let’s get started!
Ved.: And now it’s time to give the floor to our charming, but strict jury
(The word of the jury and rewarding teams.)

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COOKING SCHOOL

Good evening, friends!
Today our meeting will be held at the Krendel club. Only today and only now we are opening a school for cooks in it. All school graduates can successfully work in our camp canteen. Games-competitions are held at speed. We start every game together.
Imagine that we are in the catering department, the holy of holies of all canteens.

1 competition “Meet the chefs”.
Each squad was asked to prepare a so-called visiting card of their team, in which they will introduce the audience to their team of cooks and their assistants. Chef, soup cook, confectioner, cook.

Warm-up “Edible-inedible”

The teams are called different objects, if it can be eaten, the children clap their hands, if not, they are silent.

Bulka. Screw. Jam. Cheese. Honey. Cheesecake. Wagons. Chocolate. Slipper.

Sails. Casket. Mike. Cookie. Fish fat. Airplane. Beanbag.

Pasta. Marmalade. Bulb. Sausage.

2nd competition “To the cellar for potatoes”.
Each meal preparation usually begins with the purchase of the necessary food. Now our contestants have to bring potatoes from the cellar to the catering department. On the way you see hoops – this is the entrance to the cellar. The participants are given bags, with which, on a signal, they run, climb through the hoop, take 1 potato from the chair. Back in the same way.

3rd contest “Pour the grain into the cauldron”
Each chair has a bottle (empty), a pan with sand, a watering can and glasses. You need enough sand to fill an empty bottle. Each of the teams should pour the sand from the pan with a glass into a watering can as quickly as possible, and from the watering can into a bottle.

4th Pretzel Bake Contest
Now our chefs will show their culinary art, they will each bake a pretzel. Plasticine, a children’s spatula and potatoes are on the tables. On a signal, the first team numbers run up to the table, take plasticine and roll it out until it can be made into a pretzel: they take it with a spatula and put it on the potatoes. Whose team will bake the pretzel faster?

5 competition “Exams”
Let’s sum up our training at the culinary school “Krendel”. The teams now have to create a three-course lunch menu so that the first, second, and third courses begin with the same letter. So, the command “……….” the letter “K”, the command “…………” the letter “B”, the command “……..” the letter “C”, the command “……….” the letter “O”, etc.

6 contest “The best dance”
Exams were well passed by everyone, the mood is cheerful. There is an offer to dance. Teams perform the dance in full force.

7 competition “Identify by smell”
Participants are blindfolded and asked to identify what it is by smell. Who was more accurate – earns a prize.

8 contest “Eat Vietnamese gingerbread”
Pieces of gingerbread and a pair of Vietnamese sticks are on the chairs in a plate. Players using chopsticks must quickly eat the gingerbread.

9 contest “Original recipe” (homework)

10 contest “Candy in flour”
There are plates with flour on the chairs, in which sweets are mixed. Participants must, without the help of hands, take sweets out of the flour (one for each participant)

Summing up.

The winning team is issued a certificate:

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“Fight – Gel – Show”
Good evening girls!
Good evening, boys!
Good evening, “FOREST GLADE”!..
Only today you are sitting in this hall somewhat unusually, because we are on . .. (the hall shouts: “Boy-Gel-Show”!). Well done! The show is always a holiday, it is always a game.. But, like any game, we have our own rules. So, what can and cannot be done on our show? I will name these rules, and you will show them. Deal? During the whole evening you can:
stomp and clap! (audience shows)
shout and hoot!
dance and sing!
greet each other with applause!
boys greet girls with a whistle!
girls – squeal!
you can blow kisses to each other!
wave your hands!
And just greet each other!

You have understood the rules, and now I want to introduce you to our esteemed jury, headed by ………………………………………… (jury presentation)

I suggest you go in search of the truth. Where is this truth to be found? We thought and thought, and nothing better came up with how to travel back in time. You are ready? …Do you want this?.. Will you succeed? What do you think, in what century is it better to start looking for the truth of the eternal dispute? Well, of course, in stone! Close your eyes…

(space music sounds)

And so, we found ourselves in the Stone Age. What were the people doing there? What happened there? I will name the various actions, and you will show them.
Men hunted animals…
threw stones… and threw spears…
Women fanned the fire… and gathered roots…
Men shot with bows… and chased the animals away with shouts…
Women spanked naughty children… and bared their teeth…
And all together they jumped around the fire, thinking that they are in a disco!..

And now we invite our participants to the stage – 1 boy and 1 girl from each group.
(Rhythmic music sounds, teams rise to the stage;
participants give their names)

So, let’s start our first competition. Of course, the very first thing that ancient people, ancient men, went for was “hunting for a mammoth”.

1. Competition “Hunting for a mammoth”.
To participate in this competition, we invite our boys to go down to the hall.
“Mammoth” will be an ordinary balloon. Spectators drive the “mammoth” around the hall, the participant who touched the ball gets it. Participants of the competition can move along the rows.
(rhythmic music sounds)
I invite our girls to participate in the next competition
What did ancient women do in those distant times? While the men hunted mammoths, the women rested. As soon as the men returned with prey, the women began to butcher the skins of mammoths in order to sew clothes for their husbands. Our next competition is called: “Stitching skins”.

2. Competition “Stitching skins”

Participants need to “sew” a large canvas of skins on the stage. And the “skins” are the clothes of the audience. The contestants can go down to the auditorium, the audience is not allowed to go up to the stage.
(Here and in subsequent competitions, the Host, together with the audience, counts from 1 to 10 and the competition ends).

3. Competition “Rock Painting”

Each participant of the competition is given a jar of gouache of any color and a brush. Young men draw on the “rocks” and stones “portraits” of girls, and girls – portraits of boys. The winner is the one who draws the best portrait.
(Jury announces the winner).

We have seen that in the Stone Age we were stronger…
Maybe it was the other way around in the Middle Ages? There is dead silence in the hall … our “time machine” is working.
(Space music sounds)

And you and I got ready to portray what men and women did in the Middle Ages.
The men fought with swords and swords…
The women waved handkerchiefs at them… and pretended to be afraid of them.
Men sang serenades to the girls under the windows..
And the girls turned away shamefacedly and blushed…
Men rode horses…
Women shook in carriages and fainted…

For the next contest I invite girls.

Here are charming, beautiful girls standing in front of you. They do not yet know that they will have to travel far, far away. The fact is that the “crusades” were the favorite pastime of the men of that time. That’s the name of this contest!

4. Competition “Crusades”

Task: the girls are given military commands. Sitting astride their “horse” (mop), the girls follow the commands.
The winner is the girl who most accurately and faithfully followed orders.

Teams:
Company, on the horses! Right! Left! Around! Trot around, march!
Stand in one line!

(Jury announces the results of the competition).

I invite boys to participate in the next competition.
Of course, in the Middle Ages, girls were very fond of balls.
Oh, what balls they were!.. What dresses they were!.. And what hairstyles they were! Our next competition is called “Hairstyle”.

5. Competition “Hairstyle”

(1 girl from each squad with accessories is invited to the stage)
(While the teams in the front row are preparing their “masterpieces”, a game is played with the audience.)

But that’s not all. We are in the 20th century!
In the 20th century:
Men fly airplanes…
Women milk cows. ..
Men watch football…
Women repair railroad tracks…
And all together – they have a great time at discos!..
6. Find your half
Girls are blindfolded and they by their hair they must identify their boys, who are sitting in the same row.
7. Competition “Cinderella’s shoe”
All contestants take part in the next competition. The boys will be blindfolded to put on their girls. Girls take off their shoes, shoes fall into a pile. Boys grope for shoes and put them on for their girls.
8. The most observant
Boys and girls stand in two rows with their backs to each other. Each person is asked questions in turn:
– What color is ….. your partner’s?
– How many buttons does your lady have on her blouse?
– What color is the hairpin?
– What shoes does your boy have?
– How many ears does your partner have?
– What are the buttons on your partner’s shorts made of? etc.

9. Competition “Walk”

And now we will check how our girls can walk in different styles (one by one)
– The gait of a woman carrying very heavy bags from the market.
– Gait of a woman suffering from sciatica.
– Gait of a business woman.
– The gait of an athletic woman.
– The gait of a child taking its first steps.
– The gait of a woman whose shoes are very tight.
– The gait of a woman walking on the catwalk.
– The gait of a woman walking along the edge of a skyscraper.
– Gait of a very tired woman

10. Competition “Dance”

And now let’s see how our contestants can dance in different styles and directions of music.
(summing up)

I propose to end our evening with a declaration of love.
“Boys, what can we shout to girls?”
– Girls, we love you!
“Girls, how can you answer the boys?”
– Boys, we love you too!
Boys, do you like girls?! Girls, what about you?
Well done! Once again we were convinced that wonderful girls and boys who are capable of real friendship have gathered in “LESNOYA POLYANA”! See you soon!

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36. 6 (YOUNG DOCTORS)

Dear guys, I don’t like you! Sit in bed all day, don’t go to the sports grounds. So you will not live to the end of the race in our camp. Just eat and lie on the beds – you can get shortness of breath. Measures are needed, then maybe they will survive, at least survive until the end of the shift.
Our game is called 36.6. It is 36.6 – the normal temperature of a healthy person.
Health is the greatest value given by nature to man, but like all values ​​it can be lost. Each person should be able to take care of his body, otherwise it is difficult to hope for good health, well-being, relationships with others. And also all people should live in motion, because motion is life. And you in our camp should not be passive.
Well, if you still get sick and your body is in danger, the first thing to do is to see a doctor. A polyclinic is a medical institution where medical specialists work. Every medical specialty has a name, which can be long and difficult to pronounce because it is of Greek or Latin origin.
And now all together we will try to figure out the names of medical specialists.

1 Competition “Who treats”
Children are offered cards with the names of medical specialties, which are written inconsistently with the decoding of the activities of a particular specialist. Task: against each doctor to put the lesson corresponding to him.

Cards

Pediatrician – a doctor dealing with childhood diseases.
Therapist – treating internal diseases using non-surgical methods.
ENT – a doctor dealing with diseases of the ear, throat, nose.
Surgeon – a doctor who deals with diseases that require surgical intervention
Traumatologist – a doctor who deals with injuries and their treatment.
A cardiologist is a doctor who deals with diseases of the cardiovascular system.
Neurologist – doctor dealing with diseases of the nervous system
A psychiatrist is a doctor who deals with mental illness.
Optometrist – eye doctor.
Gastrologist – a doctor who deals with diseases of the gastrointestinal tract.

2 Competition “Therapist”

It is necessary from a distance of 3 meters to get into the mouth of the “sick” with three vitamins. Each hit is 1 point

3 Ophthalmologist Contest
Each squad has a table on which you see colored circles. You need to carefully follow all the “tracks” with your eyes and find out what color circle should be inside the square, triangle and rhombus. Hands when determining the route should be behind the back.

4 Competition “Neurologist”
Neuropathologists are experts in human emotional states. You are invited to use your legs to demonstrate anger, reverence, fear, fatigue, delight – by choice. Who will be more expressive.

5 Competition “Cardiologist”
In front of each representative of the detachment is an envelope with fragments (parts) of one cardiogram. On one sheet you will see the number 1. Try to collect the cardiogram completely as soon as possible.

6 Competition “Dentists”
Teams are invited to solve a crossword puzzle and make a smile (rub a “black” tooth with an eraser)
Crossword puzzle
1. What is harmful to teeth (candy)
2. An object with which to clean teeth (brush)
3, 4. Preferred time of day for brushing teeth (morning, evening)

7 Competition “Speech therapist”
You need to demonstrate the speech defects of patients. It is necessary to read the poem lisping, lisping, stuttering … (on assignment).
8 Competition “Surgeon”
Use a disposable syringe to pour liquid from one glass to another. The winner is the one who does it faster and spills as little water as possible.
It is a worthy thing to bring health to people! But a person, in order not to go to doctors, needs to take care of himself, you need to take care of your health. Remember: no one cares about you better than yourself.
We wish you that your body temperature will always be 36.6. Be healthy!

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Game “NOSES”

Question on the agenda:
What kind of nose is it?
A nose in love with aromas,
A drooping, guilty nose.
Nose closed from frost,
Flushed like a rose.
Cold, snotty nose
And pecking nose, drowsy.
Spout up – zadawaki,
Taking track – from the dog.
Button nose – in childhood,
And frivolous – in coquetry.
But with a purple bruise
Peaceful nose is not familiar.
And sometimes the nose is sleek.
From brilliant green it is green.
Multi-hole – at the watering can,
Hooked – at the villainess.
The nose is as hard as a nut,
The nose is beautiful – without a blemish.
And with experience he is wrinkled.
There is a sniffler for no reason.
A nose that hasn’t grown,
And, of course, a long nose.
Nose popping without permission,
Curious, like questions.
And snub-nosed – what’s that?
Nose, of course, what else!
Twin nose – twin nose.
That seems to be the end.

How many beautiful poems, songs, epithets are dedicated to the eyes and lips! But the nose is given much less attention. Why? The nose is the “protruding” part of the face. And a lot in a person’s life sometimes depends on what kind of nose it is.

The poor nose is undeservedly forgotten! Let’s restore justice, pay due attention to the nose today. First, let’s check your erudition, how savvy you are in the “question of the nose.” You should answer quickly. Whoever answers correctly brings a point to his team.

1 competition “What would it mean”

What does the expression “The nose has not grown” mean? {Anyone else is too young to do anything)
– Name fairy-tale characters who have unusually long noses. (Dwarf Nose, Pinocchio, Pinocchio?)
-What does the expression “hang your nose” mean? (Get discouraged, upset.)
-What does the expression “with a gulkin’s nose” mean? (Very little.)
-What does the expression “Poke your nose” mean? (Pointing as an edification to something, usually in a sharp form.)
– Where did the expression “cut on the nose” come from and what does it mean? (Means to remember well and for a long time. )
-What does the expression “Lead by the nose” mean? (Deceive, mislead, usually by promising something and not fulfilling the promise.

2 Competition “The most sensitive nose”
One player from each team is called and blindfolded. Various odorous objects are brought to the nose. If you don’t guess right, you get a penalty point. First they offer a banana, an apple, a lemon, an orange, soap, toothpaste, perfume or cologne. Then the task becomes more complicated – spices are offered: pepper, cinnamon, cloves, etc.

3 “Nose in words” competition
Who will name more words containing “nose”? (Contribution, rhinoceros, stretcher, carry-nose, platypus, footnote, tray, etc.

4 Competition “Nose in proverbs, sayings, riddles”
Teams take it in turns to name riddles, proverbs, sayings known to them, in which the nose is mentioned. Who is bigger?
– People always have it, Ships always have it. (Nose)
– You can solve the problem freely:
I am a small part of the face.
But read me from the end –
You will see anything in me. . (Nose – dream)
– Curious Barbara’s nose was torn off at the market, etc.

5 “Put a nose on a snowman” contest
At some distance from the players, two coasters are placed, large sheets with the image of snowmen are attached to them. The place where the nose of the snowman should be is circled. Children are blindfolded. On a signal, they must reach the snowman and put a carrot nose. Other children with the words “Left, right, lower, higher” can coordinate the actions of the participants. As soon as the nose is in a circle, the participant is allowed to remove the bandage and quickly return to his team, passing the carrot baton to the next participant in the relay. The team that finishes the relay the fastest wins.

6 “Sick nose” competition (recipe for a runny nose)
Teams present their performances. These can be skits, poems, ditties or a message “News from the first-aid post”, where children will tell how to help with a runny nose, nosebleeds, etc. detachment. They are invited to draw a person’s smile, but this should be done not with a brush, but with a nose.

8 Chastushka about the nose contest (d/z)

Host. The floor is given to the jury. Now we will find out who “left someone with a nose”, who “wiped their nose” to whom.

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“Baba Yaga Benefit Performance”

Dear friends! Today, no home is complete without a TV. You enjoy watching various shows with the participation of your favorite artists, actors and hosts. Mothers and grandmothers enthusiastically watch various concert programs. For example: Benefits of Shifrin, Petrosyan, Elena Vorobey.
And today we will have an unusual benefit performance. Benefits of Baba Yaga. Everyone knows this fabulous inhabitant of the forest, from young to old. But no one really saw her. Only today and only now, dear children, you will have the opportunity to personally enjoy the company of the beautiful residents of the Merenesti Forest. So, meet our charming Grandmothers Yozhek Lesnaya Polyana.
Babok Yozhek enters the stage.
Now let’s get to know our lovely girls better. Each participant had to tell a little about themselves.

1. Test “Business card”
Miss Moscow, Bust, Leg
Well, where is Miss Yaga
That’s it!
We’ll gather red maidens
We’ll hold a super competition
Ugh, ugh, I can’t believe my eyes
What a charm of beauty
How it suits these fairies
The title of Miss Baba Yaga

But it would be hard for our Grandmothers Yagulkas to live alone if there were no dear friend nearby .

2 test “My dear”.

Each B.Ya is given a sheet, a felt-tip pen or a marker to draw a faithful friend of the forest old woman – Koshchei the Immortal. The participant who will have the most interesting Koshcheyushka will win.

3rd test “Makeup of Baba Yaga”.
Berries, vegetables, fruits – they are
Nature is given for make-up
Who will turn Baba Yaga into a flower
He will win this competition.
Apply makeup on the image of Baba Yaga.

4 test: “Shards of happiness”

Drawings depicting Koshchei the Deathless are cut into 10 parts. Our cute participants need to assemble the drawing correctly as soon as possible. Whoever is faster than the rest is the winner.

5th test “Making a spell” (d/h)

Applying the art of conjuring
Invent a magic spell
And fantasy will help you
Just 10 words
Must be there
Who will come up with something more original and better …

6 test “Dance with a broom.”

A broom is a luxury, our Auto
Baba Yaga without a broom is nobody.
Dancing with a broom is a thrill, it’s a paradise
Your partner can take off, don’t forget
Cling tightly to your favorite broom
And in the whirlwind of dance you will spin with her

Fast and slow music sounds. B. I dance to the music.

Summing up.
The most fashionable Baba Yaga – ………………………………
The most charming Baba Yaga – …….
The kindest Baba Yaga – …………………….

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Neptune Festival

Characters: Neptune, Wife, Sea Diva, Mermaids, Little Devils, Pirates, Neptune’s Guard.
A boat is sailing with Neptune and retinue. The music sounds “From behind the island to the rod.”
Sea Diva: Attention, attention!
The bugler’s signal sounds –
And here without delay
To us on a radiant wave
Neptune is sailing from afar!
It was not an easy road…
So let’s meet honor by honor,
Welcoming all together!
(Everyone shouts: “Neptune, Neptune!”)
Neptune: I was in a hurry, in a hurry to sail as soon as possible…
Greetings, people, the lord of the seas!
And my friendly army went ashore,
To look at you and show themselves.
Sea Diva: Somehow your voice is sad
And you yourself… that…
Al in the abyss of the sea
What happened?
What is Ali dissatisfied with, Neptune, on Earth?
Why suddenly sadness on the king’s forehead?
Neptune: You are right, Sea Diva,
Today I feel sad,
Give me a tear in the morning. ..
Ah, I don’t like everything!
Sea Diva: So open up, do me a favor!
Share your misfortune.
Neptune: Many complaints have accumulated
In my office!
There are for adults, for kids,
For girls, for boys…
Just can’t find words,
How annoying to read them!
From a bad mood
A storm arose in the sea…
Sea Diva:
Ah, Neptune, dear prankster,
Why boast of strength in vain,
Throw thunders, lightnings,
It would be better if he ordered to call
Our fabulous mermaids –
Next to them, everyone is pathetic!
So they will sing and so they will dance –
All sorrows will be blown away by the wind!
Hey little mermaids, come to me –
Dance among the stones!
Mermaids sing and dance:
We are green mermaids,
Lovers in the blue sea,
Playful – oh, trouble! –
Water is boiling behind the tail!
Bearded King of the Sea,
Don’t look with such anguish!
With our joyful dance
We will cheer you up!
Among us – Sea Diva,
There is no better commander.
Let the storm come on stronger –
We are dancing, not hack-work.
And such voices –
The heavens will tremble!
We are green mermaids,
Lovers in the blue sea,
Playful – oh, trouble! –
Water is boiling behind the tail!
Neptune: Yes, it’s not easy to resist,
Don’t mess up your beard,
Don’t start dancing!
Wait, I’m here!.. (trying to get up from the throne with a groan),
Sea Diva (holding Neptune):
Stop, Neptune, take your time!
Too old already, sit down!..
Call the devils,
Let people have fun!
Neptune: Hey, brother-imps,
Come out to warm up,
Sing us some fun
A song of sea devils!
Sea devils appear, sing and dance:
At the monkfish
Sailor’s gait,
At the monkfish
Tinned throat.
We sing together –
Overseas to hear!
For insurance you need
Plug your ears!
From our vocals
Lost sleep
Pugacheva Alla,
Leontiev and Kobzon.
We sing together –
Overseas to hear!
For insurance you need
Plug your ears!
At the monkfish
Sailor’s walk,
At the monkfish
Tinned throat,
We sing together –
Hear beyond the sea!
For insurance you need
Plug your ears!
Sea Diva: Neptune, look over there:
Trouble is approaching us!
Neptune (sighing): Trouble again? And now what?
Sea Diva: The pirates have surrounded us.
Pirates sing a song to the melody “Yaroslavsky guys”:
We are funny guys,
We don’t have enough space!
And it is not in vain that he is afraid of us
The retinue of the formidable king.
Our trick is very simple –
We take everyone on board.
We – ducats and wine,
The rest of the helmet to the bottom!
Everything – for the formidable king!
We surf its seas
And until they are swept away,
We drown, we sink ships!
Smile, Jolly Roger!
I don’t care what happens later.
In the meantime, we are still living –
We drink, and dance, and sing!
We are cheerful guys,
We don’t have enough space!
And it is not in vain that he is afraid of us
The retinue of the formidable king.
Neptune (shuddering): The song is too scary…
Phew, what… faces!
I don’t need this gang
Where is the royal guard?
Show yourself:
Sing in unison,
Sing zealously,
Loving your Lord! (at the same time pushing the pirates out of the platform)
Neptune’s guard sings:
Where Neptune is sailing – a big secret,
A big secret, a big secret …
And we always
We are sailing after him.
Faithful to our King of the Sea,
And we are not afraid of pirates at all!
Chorus: Oh, zealously
Security sings!
If someone messes up –
We will call to account.
The Tsar of the sea will order:
“Cry!” Let’s make a cutlet!
When we swim – a wave flies from us,
A wave flies, a wave flies . ..
And we stand like a mountain for Neptune!
We sing so that even ships
go around half the Earth in a day.
Chorus:
To you, Neptune, we shout:
“Hip-hip, hurrah! Hip hip, hooray! Hip-hip, hooray!
And it’s time for us to work again.
Let’s show everyone who is against the king,
Where the sea crab hibernates on the sly!
Chorus.
Neptune (to everyone):
Thank you my friends!
Yes, I have to admit,
That I am pleased with the holiday –
They cheered the old man!
But stop singing and dancing,
It’s time for us to get down to business.
I went ashore then,
To understand thoroughly
With everyone on the shore
Accumulated a lot of sins.
Turning to his wife:
My light, little wife, tell me
Tell the whole truth.
How do tourists relax?
Sunbathe on the sand?
Wife: Complaints about the captain:
Tourists on the ship came to rest,
And he does not allow drinking, smoking and walking at night.
Neptune: Call the captain here
And bathe in the waters of Tsna! (they bathe the captain).
Neptune (addressing his wife):
Are there any other outrages on the ship besides this opportunity
?
Wife: Complaints about the cooks:
Not tasty cutlets, pilaf,
Would we like smoked salmon
Or sturgeon caviar?
Neptune: Call the cooks here!
Washing start! (bath the cooks).
Neptune: People will be able to figure it out,
To whom it’s too late, to whom now
Swim, jump and splash!
And it’s time for us to go back.
Rowers, to the oars! Hey banners up!
Let’s get together in a friendly circle
Again in a year – I believe in it!
See you on the beach! Until next summer!

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HAVE A MERRY MOOD!

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12 ideas for a children’s summer camp: a new season | Holiday again!

I would like to add some ideas for the summer camp. I really hope that some of them will seem fresh and relevant to you. If everything can be organized, the children will not only be busy, but also have plenty of fun.

Each camp has its own traditions: excursions, special rituals for getting to know each other, verified numbers for opening and closing shifts, sports competitions and competitive programs. If the action plan is not overloaded with events, feel free to take on the implementation of these ideas.

Fun activities at the children’s summer camp

I’ve tried to describe ideas that don’t cost much. Of course, only creative people who love their work can realize these ideas. Fortunately, among the leaders of such a majority. Good luck and have a bright summer!

I recommend to see a selection of street games and contests that do not require special props.

Feature film

To begin with, write down all the stages of filming a short film by the minute and familiarize yourself with the program of the film day at the evening gathering of the detachment, otherwise it will take 5 hours to come up with a plot. The help of counselors is necessary, you also have a role – the director of the picture.

in the morning:

• genre selection (detective, romance, western, action, drama, comedy, historical, fantasy, adventure, disaster, fairy tale)
• script writing
• preparation of costumes, props, scenery
• role learning, voice-over selection

in the afternoon:

Shooting several takes, choosing the best option (we shoot everything in a row, editing is very difficult, although modern smartphone applications allow this). The film should not last more than 3-5 minutes. Checked: in such a time you can have time to show the plot, climax and epilogue.

in the evening:

• red carpet for the arrival of film festival stars
• total viewing of all movies on a large monitor
• the jury awards “best role”, “best screenplay”, “best costumes and make-up”, etc. “Oscar” get all the units, of course. As rewards, we had a cylindrical package of chips, because then everyone got at least a couple of potato circles.

Comic Olympics

I will definitely describe such a holiday in detail someday, now I will sketch out a few ideas.

Let there be a “mix” of winter and summer games. In order to justify the name “comic”, we came up with funny accessories for each stage of the competition. The photos turned out to be very funny, the children then gladly posted them on social networks. These were funny noses, headbands, ears, wreaths, plastic ties, ear pendants, funny carnival glasses. In other words, a long jump with a red clown nose is no longer just an Olympics…

• invent a comic opening of the Olympics with Greek goddesses in sheets, the transfer of the Olympic flame and a procession of teams with flags of fictitious countries
• create a relatively long obstacle course that mixes elements of several sports. We drew arrows with chalk, indicating the direction of movement of athletes along the paths of the camp (about 600 meters in total), but every 70-80 meters there was a “station” for passing tests. We assign a number to each child (draw on a leg or arm) so that we can determine the personal and team championship

Here are examples of stations (children run a segment of the distance, get an extra point for hitting, missing – zero points):

• badminton (throw a shuttlecock into the basket with a racket from a distance of 3 meters)
• basketball (to hit the ring)
• athletics (long jump, high jump – we evaluate the overcoming of a certain mark)
• weightlifting (hold a 1.5 liter plastic bottle at arm’s length for a while)
• fencing (we force the opponent out of the circle with swords from long sausage balls)
• biathlon (we will not shoot, just knock down a pyramid of disposable cups with balls with 250 ml of water)
• you can add more tasks for accuracy, strength and dexterity, physical education teachers have a lot of ideas in stock, attach them to the preparation of

Intellectual games

It can be a “Brain Ring” or a game in the format “What? Where? When?” If you create the right mood and entourage, getting into the elite club of connoisseurs will be a matter of honor.

There are collections of questions on the Internet according to the age of the participants, there will be no problems with this. Here, for example, is my quiz with answers for younger students.

A few tips from experience to keep everything organized:

• teams should be formed a couple of days before the start of a series of games, we announce the names of the selected players over the speakerphone
• Several teams can play at the same time, in this case the answers are written on special forms, the host collects and announces all the options or only the correct one
• prepare game tables: cover with bright disposable tablecloths, lay out notepads, pens
• make comfortable seats for spectators-fans of each team
• let 2-3 responsible children mark one minute of discussion with a stopwatch. Give them whistles or horns to signal commands with loud horns
• organize a tea break once per game (compote is also possible)
• come up with a couple of questions using black boxes
• spend 2-3 musical breaks attracting artists from camp
• be sure to establish your own “crystal owl”, even if it’s a soft toy
• find the music “Our whole life is a game” and short musical interruptions to attract the attention of viewers and players to a new stage of the game

Entertaining programs for birthdays

I can offer my ready-made interesting scenarios, from which it is easy to make a fun program for congratulating summer birthdays. In the camp, they usually gather together all the guys who had a birthday during the last shift.

Free scenarios for children’s quests with the simplest props
Country of Limonia
Cave of Three Parrots
Adventures of earthlings on Mars
Quest for Princesses
contests for teenagers 12-14 years old
more than 100 funny contests

Gallery of portraits

Such beauty can be done not only on paper, but also on asphalt. We did something on large paving slabs (50×50), which themselves looked like separate canvases. With chalk, you can draw the face itself, but the hair and collar are made from improvised materials. You can use fallen needles, pebbles, leaves, twigs, petals, blades of grass, expanded clay, pieces of bark, etc. Children will come up with it, no doubt! Here is something similar I found on the Internet:0003

Fashion show on Mars

Each squad needs to create a costume (if desired, 2-3 costumes) of an alien from outer space “from nothing” per day. From newspaper and magazine pages, plastic bottles, garbage bags, shreds, adhesive tape and dry branches, etc. You need to write a verbal description for the costume, let it be a defile of aliens in accordance with all the rules.

To be honest, when we held such a competition, the winner was the team that drew and cut out of paper many schemes of galaxies with planets of different sizes, then fastened these individual elements together. It turned out a dress-the universe …

Second place was given to the cosmic bride’s white towel dress. Then he had to be untied and returned to the camp in the laundry, but it was funny. A pair of toilet paper mummies hosted the awards ceremony.

Thematic disco, dance battle or flash mob

Here, too, the whole point is long-term preparation. We give a task for the first half of the day – the choice of a musical composition, staging a mass dance. Usually, simple movements are learned for extras in the background, and several soloists alternately come to the fore and show complex elements.

If you can match the accessories (for example, decorate ordinary sunglasses with paper stars or make funny ties), the numbers are even more spectacular.

In the evening – viewing and evaluation of rooms.

Flash mob is more difficult to organize, because the dance should come as a surprise to all the uninitiated. Our guys once prepared a very good dance, they chose the time well (boring waiting for dinner at the entrance to the dining room), but the music sounded too quiet, since the children used a regular phone. When it became clear that the effect of such a flash mob was too dull, the music began to be played on serious equipment. For the sake of such a case, the camp management will definitely help.

Augmented reality

Drawings on the pavement are few people today, so the task must be something special. For example, you need to draw a picture in which each child is the main character. Yes, for the final photo shoot in chalk augmented reality, you need to lie down on the asphalt, but the result is worth it! Photographs must be taken from above. For example, from the second floor, if children draw right at the entrance to the building. Or bring a ladder.

You should get something like this:

Master classes + exhibition

Not everyone likes master classes, but as a competition for the best handicraft, several times per shift can be organized.

We use gouache for all works. We show the most spectacular techniques (a detailed description of such master classes is very easy to find).

The most accessible materials are plastic bottles, stones, cardboard boxes, disposable tableware. Samples of painted bottles and round stones are striking in their beauty, I think you have repeatedly come across.

I advise you to do thematic exhibitions. For example, let all crafts call for the protection of endangered animals from the Red Book. You can also dedicate works to homeless animals or call the Garden City exhibition, where children will talk about how they would like to see the streets and courtyards of their city.

Origami Museum

There are many schemes on the Internet, you can learn a new figure every day. The activity is fascinating, however, a lot of paper is needed. By the end of the shift, you get a chic origami museum. It is better to arrange it in the form of garlands attached to the wall or tree branches. Glue paper figures with tape at the same distance on vertically hanging threads with weights at the end. As weights, use ordinary balls slightly filled with water. So the garlands will not get confused and take off from gusts of wind.

Painting 5 meters

This is a thematic art competition on roll paper for drawing (you can use the remnants of paper wallpaper from the wrong side). Measure exactly 5 meters for each squad. We give 30-40 minutes to create a collective masterpiece. Topics can be different: space, the underwater world, a zoo for non-existent animals, flowers from distant planets, etc. To work, you need gouache and large brushes. It is not forbidden to make handprints or stamps from potatoes.

The winners of our competition impressed everyone with their artistic techniques. They had the theme “Desert”. Do you know what they came up with? They smeared the lower edge of the sheet with glue and sprinkled it with ordinary sand! The dunes turned out real! Dry fir-tree needles became thorns for the painted cacti. Great!

Theatrical Festival

There are always a lot of unusual things at such world-scale festivals: dances, facial expressions, the appearance of actors, scenery. We give the task to all units to prepare a theatrical performance for 5 minutes, in which even inanimate objects will “come to life”. Let there be roles for each tree, hemp, wind. We take the most famous fairy tales, otherwise, with such a wealth of expressive means, it will be difficult to guess what it is about.

The winners of a similar competition in our camp staged the poem “The princess was beautiful, the weather was terrible.” The character of the Horrible Princess was a plump boy with high self-esteem and acting skills. The room of the Cannibal was decorated with a picture depicting edible parts of the human body. It was very funny…

Carnival procession

I think everyone has seen reports from the Brazilian carnival on TV. Bright costumes, joyful music, a lot of dancing along the way, admiring spectators.

They prepare for the carnival for a whole year, and we only have a few hours. This time is enough to arrange, for example, a parade of soap bubbles. Everyone is going and blowing bubbles…

Or offer to come up with unusual noise instruments for the Drum Parade. Or maybe a Carnival of Flowers? Chess march?

Another tip! We had all the detachments involved at the same time, i.e. There were no spectators, there were only participants. Fortunately, one of the leaders filmed the entire parade with music from the balcony of the second floor, so after dinner everyone could enjoy the festive spectacle.

Don’t forget to announce the nominations in advance: Best costumes, Best make-up, Best accessories, Best dancing during the procession, etc.

Journal Publisher

We had an interesting experience of creating a handwritten journal in one day. Each child in the squad must complete one sheet for a beautiful thick magazine, which will then be evaluated by a competent jury. Naturally, we compete between teams. In other words, if there are 20 people in the detachment, there should be 20 sheets.

Here are the tasks for children:

• come up with a name and draw a cover
• write an editor’s page (there are usually kind words for readers and the subject of the issue in a nutshell)
• headings: beauty, health, cars, politics, travel around the countries, we advise you to read, computer games, applications for smartphones, interesting movies, tips for craftswomen, fashion, jewelry, advertising, etc. For each rubric, you can draw 2-3 sheets if there are a lot of children in the squad

I remind you that each child completes only one page. Writes a short text, draws, comes up with subtitles. He will be a journalist, artist, designer and editor of one column. We collect all the leaves in a magazine, sew them together, and give them to the jury.

How interesting it is to look at all this later… The magazines are kept in the canteen until the end of the shift, so you can take them and read them.

Body Art Day

This can only be done on a bath day. Naturally, special paints are needed for face painting. From experience I can say that if you do not set a theme, everyone will be painted in almost the same way. It was easier for us to distribute jars to squads (two colors each), so there were yellow-violet, red-white, blue-orange, lime-pink, etc. Topics can also be different: exotic plants, strange insects, space aliens, mysterious tribes, “eyes” (eyes all over the body), etc.

After the awards – everyone in the shower!

As usual, please write interesting ideas in the comments! Let the children of the whole country be interested!

Irina Panasyan

Summer camp event.

Children’s summer camp

Children associate summer camp with fun and good mood, so the task of adults is to provide just such an experience. The correct selection of activities is the key to the success of the organization of the camp.

Let’s get acquainted

Any plan of activities at the summer camp necessarily includes getting to know each other. It is preferable to use elements of psychological training in the program of this kind of holiday. These can be exercises for remembering each other’s names, recognizing the qualities of character and interests of all participants. Collective games or activities are also well perceived by children, where it is impossible to get the desired result without the participation of at least one person from the detachment or team.

Acquaintance in the form of a sporting event implies precisely such team games. For example, the usual tug of war or “unraveling the web” in most cases helps even unfamiliar children get closer. And this can be a guarantee of peaceful coexistence of vacationers until the end of the shift and minimizing interpersonal conflicts. Ideally, at the end of the event, most of the children will remember each other by name.

How can we become friends

Conflicts, both small and large, are inevitable. The main task of adults is to prevent them from flaring up and developing into a kind of war between the detachments or within them. Such cases are not uncommon, so an event for a summer camp for rallying comes to the rescue.

Unlike dating games, games and numbers in this category already shift the focus from the concept of “I” to the concept of “We”. The detachments became small separate groups, with their own rules and traditions. Here you can offer such an event as “Treasure Search”. Usually he is given the first half of the day, starting from the moment when the children are still sleeping. Educators collect a large number of sweets, fruits and other little things that are pleasant for children, put them in a large bag and hide them in the camp. Next, you need to create a map with the designations of the places where the guys are waiting for the test. Such cards are made in the required quantity, one copy per squad. Here you can choose one of the options:

• The map is divided into fragments, each of which gives a hint where to look for the next piece.
• You need to pass a certain test in order to get a hint on the route to find the treasure.

Here everyone is given the opportunity to prove themselves in the common cause of searching for “treasure”. Thus, the goal of uniting children is achieved.

What adults and children love

Undoubtedly, the children’s summer camp offers vacationers relative freedom and independence. Here, children are transferred to a new environment where they can express themselves, meet, make friends and even fall in love. From time to time it is useful to hold entertainment events where there is an atmosphere of fun and music, of course, within the bounds of decency. Of course, we are talking about discos and similar entertainment holidays. Dance staging, song contests and pranks are appropriate at any time during the shift. They will dilute educational and sporting events.

Counselors must take part in the games together with the children, thereby confirming their involvement and interest in maintaining a positive atmosphere in the camp. It is better to organize karaoke, masquerades and other entertainments in the evening, after traditional security classes, and not to make them strictly regulated in time.

Scenarios for summer camp events often include stage performances where the roles are assigned. This is especially true for themed holidays. A change in a summer camp necessarily provides for an event dedicated to Neptune’s Day, Ivan Kupala’s Day, etc. The choice of an event depends on the type of camp and its organization, as well as the form of the event. So, for example, a summer school camp is much more limited in its capabilities. Events dedicated to the water holiday are less spectacular and full-fledged. But sports holidays can be organized on a larger scale, with the active involvement of all children.

Play, have fun and … learn

Around the middle of the shift, it is worth remembering the school days a little and testing the knowledge of children, at the same time reminding them that study is just around the corner. In this case, activities for the summer camp dedicated to school subjects will be useful. Various kinds of quizzes, games like “What? Where? When? ”, intellectual fights and competitions are an excellent opportunity to train memory and intellectual activity. For more active participation, the children should be motivated by possible prizes, and one of the children of senior school age should be selected as a jury to evaluate the competitions.

We invite you to visit

In continuation of the theme of thematic events and subject quizzes, it is worth mentioning the holidays of professions or patriotic dates. They can be organized with the invitation of representatives of this profession, or those who can talk about a particular event. For example, the Day of the Navy, celebrated at the end of July, can be imagined as an evening of a military song, to invite a soldier – a representative of this type of troops. Children will be interested to learn about the specifics of the profession and ask questions to the guest.

Themselves with a mustache: children as adults

There is probably no child who does not want to become an adult himself, at least for a while. Summer and camp are exactly the time when dreams can become reality. For one day, children can be given the opportunity to try themselves as counselors, change places with them. The latter, in turn, will do exercises, give a report, keep order in the detachment and obey the new “leaders”. Such an opportunity not only gives children a chance to show their organizational and leadership abilities, but also instills responsibility and an understanding that being a good counselor is not an easy, serious task. Depending on the situation, the day of self-management can last several hours or until the evening. It is necessary to monitor the degree of awareness of children of their role and its manifestations. It is advisable to ask the children after the end of such an event to share their impressions, comments, wishes and suggestions, possibly in the form of an anonymous questionnaire. This helps to improve the work of the camp by making adjustments to its program.

Goodbye, see you next summer

The closing of the camp should be celebrated with a grand celebration to emphasize the importance of the time spent here. A little sad, but a necessary event for a summer camp must be organized at the highest level. It is necessary to make maximum creative efforts and efforts so that the children remember the change as something amazing and positive. And subsequently wished to visit the camp again. Games and competitions on this day should not be similar to other squad events.